Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology
Subtitle: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination
Publisher: AK Press Distribution
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Chico, USA; Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781849353793
Description: Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic critique of criminal justice and among the first to directly criticize academic criminology while formulating a critical criminology. They identified the sources of social problems in social structures and relations of inequality and recognized that the institutions preferred by mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were actually the causes or enablers of those harms in the first place.

This volume collects critical writings on criminology from radicals and thinkers like William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikahil Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, and many others.
Table of contents: title: Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology; title: What People Are Saying About This Book; title: Dedication; title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword; title: Introduction: The Origins and Importance of Classic Anarchist Criminology; title: Part One: William Godwin; label: 1.
title: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Book VII: Of Crimes And Punishments; title: Part Two: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; label: 2.
title: What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Rights and of Government; title: Part Three: Mikhail Bakunin; label: 3.
title: The Program of the International Brotherhood; label: 4.
title: Ethics: Morality of the State; title: Part Four: August Spies; label: 5.
title: Address of August Spies; title: Part Five: Peter Kropotkin; label: 6.
title: Law and Authority: An Anarchist Essay; label: 7.
title: Are Prisons Necessary?; title: Part Six: Michael Schwab And Joseph E. Gary; title: 8: A Convicted Anarchist’s Reply to Professor Lombroso; title: Part Seven: Errico Malatesta; label: 9.
title: Towards Anarchy; label: 10.
title: Class Struggle or Class Hatred?: “People” and “Proletariat”; label: 11.
title: Further Thoughts on the Question of Crime; title: Part Eight: Voltairine De Cleyre; label: 12.
title: Crime and Punishment; title: Part Nine: Lucy Parsons; label: 13.
title: The Principles of Anarchism; title: Part Ten: Alexander Berkman; label: 14.
title: Prisons and Crime; label: 15.
title: Law and Government; title: Part Eleven: Emma Goldman; label: 16.
title: The Traffic in Women; label: 17.
title: Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure; title: Afterword; title: Index; title: Contributors’ Biographies; title: Copyright; title: Friends of AK Press