TABLE OF CONTENTS

lECTURES IN PURSUIT
of

SOCIAL JUSTICE


T. R. Young

The Red Feather Institute

Jan.1989


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CRIME AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:
Theory and Policy for the
21st Century

RED FEATHER INSTITUTE

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: THE SOCIAL SOURCES OF CRIME

LECTURE 1: FIRST THINGS

OBJECTIVES

ORGANIZATION OF THE Lectures

THEORIES OF CRIME; CRIMES OF THEORISTS

BASIC CONCEPTS

HUMAN RIGHTS

THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

LECTURE 2: FOLK THEORIES OF CRIME

INTRODUCTION

PRESCIENTIFIC THEORIES

ESTABLISHED SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

CONCLUSION

LECTURE 3:  A SOCIALIST THEORY OF CRIME:

INTRODUCTION

SOCIALIST PROPOSITIONS ON THE SOURCES OF CRIME

NON-ECONOMIC SOURCES OF CRIME

Low Crime Societies

PART II THE SOCIAL LOCATION OF CRIME

LECTURE 4 THE SOCIAL LOCATION OF CRIME

INTRODUCTION

A CRIME SAMPLER

THE SOCIAL LOCATION OF CRIME

COMPARATIVE COSTS

CRIME IN THE WORLD

THE DATA OF WORLD CRIME

STRUCTURAL CRIME

WHAT IS TO BE DONE ABOUT CRIME

LECTURE 5:  CORPORATE CRIME

INTRODUCTION

STRUCTURAL CRIME

CORPORATE CRIME: Comparative Costs

THE SOURCES OF CORPORATE CRIME

CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE CRIME

CONTROLLING CORPORATE CRIME

CORPORATE CRIME in THE WORLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM

THE WORLD CAPITALISM SYSTEM

SELECTED CASES

LECTURE 6:  POLITICAL CRIME

INTRODUCTION

POLITICS

MEASURING POLITICAL CRIME

KINDS OF POLITICAL CRIME

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

LECTURE 7: STATE CRIME

    THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STATE CRIME

    DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS

    DOMESTIC STATE CRIME IN HISTORY

    DOMESTICE STATE CRIME TODAY

    INTERNATIONAL STATE CRIME

    CRIMES OF CITIZENS AGAINST THE STATE:
        Right-Wing and Left-Wing Subversions

    HIDING STATE CRIME

    UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES IN THE DEMOCRATIC STATE

    PREVENTING INTERNATIONAL STATE CRIME    

LECTURE 8: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL CRIME

INTRODUCTION

MEASURING POLITICAL CRIME

POLITICAL CRIME AND PROFIT

UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN CRIME IN THE THIRD WORLD.

TERROR IN THE rd WORLD

LECTURE 9:  THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZED CRIME

INTRODUCTION

THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZED CRIME

THE BUSINESS OF ORGANIZED CRIME

PORNOGRAPHY

PROSTITUTION

GAMBLING

ORGANIZED CRIME AND LEGITIMATE BUSINESS

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

CONCLUSION

LECTURE 10: THE SOURCES OF STREET CRIME

INTRODUCTION

THE FORMS OF STREET CRIME

THE MAGNITUDE OF CRIME IN THE USA

TRENDS IN STREET CRIME

COMPARATIVE DATA

ECONOMIC SOURCES OF STREET CRIME

LECTURE 11:  WHITE COLLAR CRIME

INTRODUCTION

A THEORY OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME

INTERNATIONALIZING WHITE COLLAR CRIME

RELIGION AND CRIME

POLICE CRIME

ORGANIZED LABOR AND CRIME

COMPUTER CRIME

Parental Crime

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

LECTURE 12: CRIME IN SPORTS, MEDICINE AND ACADEMIA

INTRODUCTION

SPORTS AND CRIME

MEDICAL CRIME

MEDICAL CRIMES AGAINST THE THIRD WORLD

ACADEMIC CRIME

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

LECTURE 13: CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

INTRODUCTION

CLASS, GENDER AND RACE

CONTROLLING WOMEN

THE CRIMES OF WOMEN

THEORIES OF FEMALE CRIME

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

CONCLUSION .

LECTURE 14: JUSTICE FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL

BEYOND JUSTICE: the Upper Class

CONTROLLING THE MIDDLE CLASSES

THEORIZING ABOUT JUSTICE

CONCLUSION

LECTURE 15 UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES

INTRODUCTION

ACTIVE RIGHT-WING ORGANIZATIONS

THEORY OF UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES

PART III WHAT IS TO BE DONE

LECTURE 16  BEYOND CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

INTRODUCTION

THE CONSERVATIVE PROGRAM

THE LIBERAL PROGRAM

A LONG TERM AGENDA FOR A LOW CRIME SOCIETY

TOWARD DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM

CONCLUSION


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