Synopses & Reviews
Criminology has traditionally been a military science, a science of war. "The criminal element" is the enemy. Repression and restraint are the primary tools of criminal justice, and criminologists study how to make those tools effective in the "war on crime." We are beginning to realize that this is a war against ourselves and one that we are losing. Our inability to make peace with crime and criminals is reflected in the paucity of our daily personal relations, where we live by domination and discipline, where forgiveness and mercy are seen as naive surrender to victimization.
The essays in this volume propose peacemaking as an effective alternative to the "war" on crime. They range from studies of the intellectual roots of the peacemaking tradition to concrete examples of peacemaking in the community, with special attention to feminist peacemmaking traditions and women's experience.
Table of Contents
Religous and humanist peacemaking traditions. The way of peace : on crime, suffering, and service / Richard Quinney -- Radical criminology and the overcoming of alienation : perspectives from Marxian and Gandhian humanism / Kevin Anderson -- Reconciliation and the mutualist model of community / J. Peter Cordella -- Homelessness and the case for community-based initiatives : the emergence of a model shelter as a short-term response to the deepening crisis in housing / Gregg Barak -- Beyond the fear of crime : reconciliation as the basis for criminal justice policy / Russ Immarigeon -- Feminist peacemaking traditions and women's experience. Moving into the new millennium : toward a feminist vision of justice / M. Kay Harris -- Sexual assault, women, and the community : organizing to prevent sexual violence / Susan Caringella-MacDonald and Drew Humphries -- Battering women and battering Central Americans : a peacemaking synthesis / Larry L. Tifft and Lyn. Markham.