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Crime, Critique and Utopian Alternatives

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Crime, Critique and Utopia

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Abstract

Marie Louise Berneri, writing on Utopia, noted:

Our age is an age of compromises, of half-measures, of the lesser evil. Visionaries are derided or despised, and ‘practical men’ rule our lives. We no longer seek radical solutions to the evils of society, but reforms; we no longer try to abolish war, but to avoid it for a period of a few years; we do not try to abolish crime, but are contented with criminal reforms; we do not try to abolish starvation, but to set up world-wide charitable organisations.

(Berneri, 1982[1950]: 1)

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    Margaret Malloch (Senior Research Fellow) & Bill Munro (Lecturer in Criminology) (Senior Research Fellow) &  (Lecturer in Criminology)

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Malloch, M. (2013). Crime, Critique and Utopian Alternatives. In: Malloch, M., Munro, B. (eds) Crime, Critique and Utopia. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009807_2

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