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Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist
Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
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2020
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Over the past five decades, prominent criminologist Gregg Barak has worked as an author, editor, and book review editor; his large body of work has been grounded in traditional academic prose. His new book, Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist, while remaining scholarly in its intent, departs from the typical academic format. The book is a a first-person account that examines the linkages between one scholar's experiences as a criminologist from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to developments in mainstream criminology. Barak draws upon his own experiences over this half-century as a window into the various debates and issues among radical, critical, and technocratic criminologies. In doing so, he revisits his own seminal works, showing how they reflect those periods of criminological development.
What holds this book together is the story of how resisting the crimes of the powerful while struggling locally for social justice is the essence of critical criminology. His seven chapters are divided into three parts—academic freedom, academic activism, and academic praxis—and these connected stories link the author's own academic career in Berkeley, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Chicago; Alabama; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and across the United States. Barak's eventful scholarly life involved efforts to overcome laws against abortion and homosexuality; to formalize protective practices for women from domestic violence and sexual assault; to oppose racism and classism in the criminal justice system; to challenge the wars on gangs, drugs, and immigrants; and to confront the policies of mass incarceration and the treatment of juvenile offenders.
What holds this book together is the story of how resisting the crimes of the powerful while struggling locally for social justice is the essence of critical criminology. His seven chapters are divided into three parts—academic freedom, academic activism, and academic praxis—and these connected stories link the author's own academic career in Berkeley, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Chicago; Alabama; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and across the United States. Barak's eventful scholarly life involved efforts to overcome laws against abortion and homosexuality; to formalize protective practices for women from domestic violence and sexual assault; to oppose racism and classism in the criminal justice system; to challenge the wars on gangs, drugs, and immigrants; and to confront the policies of mass incarceration and the treatment of juvenile offenders.
Author / Editor information
GREGG BARAK is a professor of criminology and criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University. In 2003 he became the 27th Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and in 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice. He is the author of Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are Routinized Away and What We Can Do about It (2017).
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“Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist is part-memoir, part-intellectual history and part-theoretical integration, synthesis and analysis; it is also a call to action, as well as a blueprint for praxis-oriented teaching and scholarship. Gregg Barak accomplishes all of this in a book written so lucidly that it could be read at the beach—which I did!”
— Avi Brisman, Editor in Chief of Critical Criminology“Gregg Barak has brought autoethnography from the social sciences and humanities to the field of criminology with this fascinating odyssey of his lifelong commitment to social justice. From the United States to Europe and South America, he co-mingles the personal and the political by relating his own experiences to outside struggles from the 60s to the present, exemplifying the trials and tribulations of academia along the way. A must-read for historians of criminology itself.”
— Lynn Chancer, Sociology Program, Graduate Center of the City University of New York"For anyone interested in the history of criminology and criminal justice, a career in criminology, praxis-orientated scholarship and/or teaching, I would recommend this as a must-read, and hope they get as much enjoyment out of reading it as I did."
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Contents
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Foreword
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Academic Freedom
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Chapter 1. Coming of Age at the Berkeley School of Criminology
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Chapter 2. Life as a Young Criminologist
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Chapter 3. Doing Public Criminology
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Chapter 4. Doing Newsmaking Criminology
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Chapter 5. Doing Multidisciplinary Criminology
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Part Three. Academic Praxis
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Chapter 6. Integrating Criminology
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Chapter 7. Globalizing Criminology
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Appendix
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Index
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June 22, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9781978814165
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Keywords for this book
Criminal; Crime; Power; Justice; Law; Chronicles; Radical Criminologist; Gregg Barak; books; late 1960s; critical criminology; academic freedom; academic activism; academic praxis; academic career; Berkeley; California; Las Vegas; Nevada; Chicago; Alabama; Ann Arbor; Michigan; abortion; homosexuality; wars; gangs; drugs; juvenile offenders; mass incarceration; immirant; criminal justice; Sociology; Biography; Memoir; Education; American Studies; Anthropology; social science
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
