Peacemaking criminology

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Peacemaking criminology is a non-violent movement against oppression, social injustice and violence as found within criminology, criminal justice and society in general. With its emphasis on inter-personal, intra-personal and spiritual integration, it is well connected to the emerging perspective of positive criminology.

According to the writer John E. Conklin, "peacemaking criminology regards crime as the product of a social structure that puts some groups at a disadvantage, sets people against one another, and generates a desire for revenge."[1]

Peacemaking criminology emerged from work in

communist anarchism as an alternative to the rule of criminal law" introduced the fundamentals of the peacemaking approach.[4]

References

  1. ^ Conklin, John E. (2007). Criminology (10th ed.). Boston: Pearson, Allyn and Bacon. p. 5.3.2.1
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  3. ^ Shantz, Jeff; Williams, Dana M. (2013). Anarchy and Society: Reflections on Anarchist Sociology. Brill Publishers. pp. 94–5.
  4. ^ Ferrell, Jeff (2018). "Against the Law: Anarchist Criminology". In Nocella, Anthony J. II; Seis, Mark; Shantz, Jeff (eds.). Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment. Peter Lang. pp. 13–14.

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