In the fourth edition of Essential Criminology, authors Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, and
Desire. M. Anastasia build upon this best-selling critical review of criminology, which has …

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 …

The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the
United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical …

This chapter reviews the state of empirical knowledge within the field of radical criminology.
It is, perhaps, an historic event that radicals have been invited to represent the state of …

The 1960s produced a crisis of order and authority unknown in the United States since the
Civil War (Chatfield, 1990). Almost 35 years have passed, yet the US government and mass …

This article reassesses the relationship between the rate of surplus value and the rate of
imprisonment in the US. Prior studies of this relationship indicated that the rate of surplus …

As radical criminology continues to gain popularity among a new generation of scholars,
there are several troubling developments that ought to be met with caution. First, many …

The United States now has the largest prison system in the world. Today, approximately 2.3
million people are in prison and jail facilities in the United States of America (Bureau of …

Radical criminology examines how forms of inequality, oppression, and conflict affect crime
and law. The term" radical criminology" has been in existence for thirty years, though its …

A neo-Marxist approach has been utilized to explain variation in local crime control
strategies and media attentiveness to crime. The present study has argued that increased …