Subject: Re: Peacemaking crim?
From: Federico Muraro (fmuraro@iname.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 08:39:35 CST
Jim:
You can read some critics about pacemaking criminology (actually is about
pacemaking victimology but the critics can by applied to criminology too)
in the excellent paper written for Robert Elias for the 8th International
Symposium called Paradigms and paradoxes of victimology. You can find it here:
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/index.html#elias
At 16:52 20/03/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Jim:
>
>Well, although I am a supporter of PMC there are those who'd argue that
>reforming subparts of the totality to make them more user friendly
>(informal) is actually "another turn of the ideological scew" (Rick Abel)
>whereby folks are coopted into believing that something important has
>changed when it has not and that instead of dealing with the wider
>structural issues, these are further masked; then if the outcomes are more
>humane but problems persist, the mainstream can blame the alternatives for
>failing, being too lenient etc., and thereby excuse themselves while
>holding on to power. Others of course, even more mainstream folk like
>Donald Black disagree arguing that structure can change incrementally by
>chaning subsystems; that if we increase forms like peacemaking, restorative
>justice, informal social control, we become less dependent on formal law
>and the structure of society is transformed.
>
>Also, check Don Gibbon's Thinking about Crime and Criminals (1994) and
>Beirne and Messerschmidt's Criminology.
>
>Cheers
>Stuart
>
>At 12:14 PM 3/20/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >We're finishing a paper on peacemaking criminology and would like to
> >include a few criticisms that have appeared in some mainstream journals
> >or books in the last few years. But, other than Ron Akers' criticisms
> >in his crim theory volume, we haven't seen much. Have we just missed
> >them, or isn't there much published out there?
> >
> >For those critical of PMC, what are the most serious problems with it?
> >
> >jt
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Jim Thomas / Department of Sociology / Northern Illinois University
> > http://www.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas
> >
> >
> >
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