Intellectuals for Law and Order: A Critique of the New "Realists"

The article discusses attempts to place new "realists" in the context of an expanding criminal justice apparatus, contradictions of monopoly capitalism and impact of present economic and political crisis on petty bourgeois intellectuals. Topics discussed include the material context under...

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Main Author: Platt, Anthony M. (Author)
Contributors: Takagi, Paul
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
In: Social justice
Year: 2013, Volume: 40, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 192-215
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
CRIME victims
Capitalism
Criminal Justice System
Criminal Law
Criminal justice personnel
Police
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Summary:The article discusses attempts to place new "realists" in the context of an expanding criminal justice apparatus, contradictions of monopoly capitalism and impact of present economic and political crisis on petty bourgeois intellectuals. Topics discussed include the material context under which realists' ideology flourishes, massive investment in criminal justice and ineffectiveness of police to protect working-class communities from intra-class crimes of personal and economic victimization.