An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales–for centuries, these and other traditional
concepts exemplified the public's perception of justice. Today, popular culture, including …

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United
States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the …

Concerns for social justice have figured prominently in much current sociological and
criminological discourse. Often implicated by these critiques is the enduring presence of …

Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article explores the relationship between human
rights and criminological discourses concerning paramilitary abuses. The article begins with …

In previous research, core peacemaking criminology themes addressed by authors within
the Pepinsky and Quinney reader were examined. These peacemaking criminology themes …

Restorative justice, rooted in the practices of indigenous people across the globe, has grown
exponentially in both theory and practice since its beginnings in Canada in the 1970s …

This chapter explains the origins of peacemaking criminology, assess both its theoretical
logic and its empirical support. It suggests how this perspective might be integrated further …

Although an individualistic conception of violence dominates in the US, academics are
beginning to pay attention to more systemic forms of violence. Systemic violence is difficult to …

Critical criminological theory, the subject of this chapter, is a descriptive term that covers a
broad range of theoretical positions. A criminological theory explains how and why some …

During the past decade, there was a resurgent tendency in criminology to explain emerging
patterns of crime within the United States by referring solely to dysfunctional families or …