Richard Quinney's The Social Reality of Crime remains an
eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice. At the
time of its appearance in 1970, Quinney's theory not only liberated
the field from a recitation of the practices of the police, courts,
and corrections, it also represented a marked departure from
traditional analysis which viewed criminal behavior as
pathological. Quinney not only advanced criminological thought, he
inspired scores of students of crime and criminal justice to
reorient their perceptions of the justice system.
The Social Reality of Crime swept the criminological community
and motivated an entire generation of researchers to question
definitions of crime and labels of criminality. The book's
popularity quickly turned Quinney into a criminologist with an
international reputation. Excerpts from the book's first chapter,
which is devoted to the theory of the social reality of crime, are
now routinely reprinted in anthologies on criminology and deviant
behavior. The theory itself is discussed in most criminology
textbooks.
This new edition of The Social Reality of Crime will renew
inspiration for Quinney's unique critical-social constructionist
perspective that has been so significant to the development of
theoretical work in the fields of criminology, social problems, and
the sociology of law.
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