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Routledge Revivals

Critical Criminology

First published in 1975, this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors previous work, the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology.

Directed at orthodox criminology, this is a partisan work written by a group of criminologists committed to a social transformation: a transformation to a society that does not criminalize deviance. Included are American contributions, particularly from the School of Criminology at Berkeley, represented by Hermann and Julia Schwendinger and Tony Platt, together with essays by Richard Quinney and William Cham-bliss. From Britain, Geoff Pearson considers deviancy theory as misfit sociology and Paul Hirst attacks deviancy theory from an Althusserian Marxist position. The editors contribute a detailed introductory essay extending the position developed in The New Criminology, and two other pieces which attempt to continue the task of translating criminology from its traditional correctionalist stance to a commitment to socialist diversity and a crime-free set of social arrangements.

Critical Criminology

Edited by
Ian Taylor,
Paul Walton
and
Jock Young

First published in 1975
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

This edition first published in 2012 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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1975 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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A Library of Congress record exists under ISBN: 0710080239

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-51943-4 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-203-12265-5 (ebk)

Critical criminology

International Library of Sociology

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Editor: John Rex, University of Warwick

A catalogue of the books available in the International Library of
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Routledge & Kegan Paul will be found at the end of this volume.

Critical criminology

Edited with
contributory essays
by

Ian Taylor

Criminology Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Sheffield

Paul Walton

Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow

Jock Young

Department of Sociology, Middlesex Polytechnic

Routledge & Kegan Paul

London and Boston

First published in 1975
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Broadway House, 6874 Carter Lane,
London EC4V 5EL and
9 Park Street,
Boston, Mass. 02108, USA
Set in Monotype Times type
and printed in Great Britain by
W & J Mackay Limited, Chatham
Copyright Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1975
No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without permission from the
publisher, except for the quotation of brief
passages in criticism
ISBN 0 7100 8023 9 (c)
ISBN 0 7100 8024 7 (p)

Dedication

No reason to get excited
The Thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I we've been through life
And this is not our fate
So let us not speak falsely now
The hour is getting late.

Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower

Contents

Preface

However desirable as a form of theoretical practice, collective work and its associated periods of self-criticism and argument require patience and support, not just amongst the collective but amongst one's friends. In the process of producing The New Criminology, we leaned very heavily on our friends, and this volume has also been a trial on our colleagues. In various ways, our friends and colleagues at Middlesex Polytechnic (Ken Plummer, in particular), at Sheffield University (Tony Bottoms, Paul Wiles, Colin Sumner and Dave Wall) and at Glasgow University (Greg Philo and Ian Roxborough) have been helpful in ways they might not realize themselves. In London, Henrietta Resler has been an ever-patient friend and support.

We would like also to acknowledge the typing help of Joyce Keen and Lesley Corner; and also the permissions received to reprint the essays by Herman and Julia Schwendinger and Richard Quinney from Issues in Criminology, and the exchange between Paul Hirst and ourselves from Economy and Society. Once again, Peter Hopkins of Routledge & Kegan Paul has been of inestimable help.

Though there are differences in emphasis and direction in our work and that of our American comrades, we would like to express our appreciation of their work, and the radical scholars at the School of Criminology at Berkeley in particular. Without them, American criminology would be so much the poorer. We wish them, and their new journal, Crime and Social Justice, all success in the future. Without the continuing help and stimulation from our friends in the National Deviancy Conference, of course, none of this would ever have been possible.

IAN TAYLOR

PAUL WALTON

JOCK YOUNG

Notes on contributors

WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS is the author of numerous articles and books attempting to systematize and explore the critical criminological perspective. With Robert Seidman, he authored Law, Order and Power (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1971), and earlier he edited Crime and the Legal Process (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), an initial attempt to apply a conflict approach to the sociology of criminal law. He is currently engaged in producing a monograph on organized crime in America, and on a book on the political economy of crime. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

PAUL Q. HIRST was born in 1946 in Devon, studied at Leicester University and Sussex University. He is the author of a variety of articles in the Althusserian tradition, mostly in Economy and Society, and is currently Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck College in the University of London.

GEOFF PEARSON studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield and the London School of Economics. He trained and practised as a psychiatric social worker and currently holds a lectureship in the Department of Social Administration, University College, Cardiff, where he teaches Human Socialization. His main interests lie in the relationship between deviancy theory and politics, and his publications include a number of papers on this, and a book

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