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The New Primer in Radical Criminology: Critical Perspectives on Crime, Power and Identity (4th ed.)
Michael J. Lynch & Raymond Michalowski
(Paperback)
2006, pages
ISBN: 1-881798-64-X
$32.50

Radical criminology's distinctive, non-mainstream perspectives on environmental crime and justice issues, and on state crime and terrorism, are fully explored for the first time in new chapters added to the fourth edition of this long-popular text. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, this college-level textbook has been much praised for insightfully framing the problem of crime in terms of class, race, gender, culture and history.

The wide-ranging new chapter on "The Environment, Crime and Justice" addresses such topics as: environmental pollution as a crime; environmental justice research; global warming and the end of oil; and the potential of a "green" criminology. The provocative new chapter on "State Crime and Terrorism" offers analyses of: political crime versus state crime; the absence of state crime in orthodox criminology; war as state crime; state and anti-state terrorism; and genocide, among other topics.

In its eleven other extensively updated chapters, the "Primer" presents radical/critical perspectives on: criminological theory; the causes of crime; conceptions of state and law; policing; courts; punishment and corrections; and many other subjects.

Michael J. Lynch is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida. Raymond Michalowski is Arizona Regents Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University and the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.

"Lynch and Michalowski's revised Primer should be an integral part of the library for all critical criminologists, for all criminologists with an interest in theory, and for anyone who teaches criminology theory courses. It provides among the best and most comprehensive overviews of radical perspectives to date." Prof. Barbara Perry, Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, April 2007.

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