Erich Fromm & Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society

by Richard Quinney and Kevin B. Anderson

Linking the writings of the great humanist psychologist Erich Fromm to criminology, this collection shows how viewing crime patterns and the criminal justice system from Fromm's humanist perspective opens a path to more effective and more humane ways of understanding and dealing with crime and criminals.

Contributors to Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology draw on Fromm's writings on alienation, sadomasochism, and patriarchal/matriarchal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068300
• ISBN13: 9780252068300
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"