Class, State, and Crime: On the Theory and Practice of Criminal Justice

by Richard Quinney

Book by Quinney, Richard

179 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Richard Quinney is an American sociologist, writer, and photographer known for his philosophical and critical approach to crime and social justice.

Reviews

[Brian Bean]

Woefully abstract, In desperate need of examples, and has born out as completely wrong in the 3 decades since written in its predictions about tendencies away from prison incarceration and the notion that “capitalism poses a threat to the continued existence of the state.” Also its treatment of transition to capitalism purely asserts a fatalism of evolutionary socialism and doesn’t even consider question of revolution. He also talks quite a bit about “Marxist-Christian” stuff that to me read like substance-less nonsense.