Towards a global critical justice problematic |
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Authors: | W Gordon West |
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Institution: | (1) Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada;(2) Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper argues that a global perspective is demanded by neo-Marxist methodological considerations, pointing out that traditional
comparative criminology has been seriously flawed in its assumptions and preconceptions. A critical comparative criminology
must be based on a world system and/or dependency model, coupled with human rights concerns. The crucial concerns of critical
criminology are re-identified within a problematic of the concepts: “reproduction”, “production”, “the state”, and “transformation”.
Their relevance to a comparative criminology is underscored, by way of critiquing north/western (including Canadian) critical
criminology. The paper ends by drawing out some of the implications of this approach for justice theory and research in Canada. |
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