NEW CRIMINOLOGY - FOR A SOCIAL THEORY OF DEVIANCE

• NCJ Number: 11589
• Author(s): I TAYLOR; P WALTON
• Date Published: 1973
• Length: 340 pages
• Sale Source: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

CRITIQUE OF PAST AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN STUDIES OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE.

Abstract

DRAWING ON THE WORKS OF EMINENT THEORISTS, THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT THE WEAKNESS OF CLASSICAL AND POSITIVIST THEORY, THE MAJOR CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LATTER BEING INSISTENCE ON THE UNITY OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD. ALSO DISCUSSED IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LABELING THEORY, ETHNOMETHODOLOGY, AND THE NEW CONFLICT THEORY. THIS VOLUME ANALYZES THE WRITINGS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS AS MATZ, DURKHEIM, MARX, ENGELS, AND BONGER, EMPHASIZING THROUGHOUT, THE NEED TO MOVE TOWARD A LARGER THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)