Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic critique of criminal justice and among the first to directly criticize academic criminology while formulating a critical criminology. They identified the sources of social problems in social structures and relations of inequality and recognized that the institutions preferred by mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were actually the causes or enablers of those harms in the first place. This volume collects critical writings on criminology from radicals and thinkers like William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikahil Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, and many others.
Table of Content
CONTENTS
Foreword by Ruth Kinna • 1
Introduction: The Origins and Importance of Classic Anarchist Criminology
by Mark Seis, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Jeff Shantz • 5
PART ONE: WILLIAM GODWIN
Chapter 1. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
“Book VII of Crime and Punishment” • 21
PART TWO: PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
Chapter 2. What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle
of Rights and of Government • 47
PART THREE: MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Chapter 3. Program of the International Brotherhood • 85
Chapter 4. Ethics: Morality of the State • 93
PART FOUR: AUGUST SPIES
Chapter 5. Address of August Spies • 109
PART FIVE: PETER KROPOTKIN
Chapter 6. Law and Authority • 135
Chapter 7. Are Prisons Necessary? • 155
PART SIX: MICHAEL SCHWAB AND JOSEPH E. GARY
Chapter 8. A Convicted Anarchist’s Reply to Professor Lombroso • 175
PART SEVEN: ERRICO MALATESTA
Chapter 9. Towards Anarchy • 183
Chapter 10. Class Struggle or Class Hatred? “People” and “Proletariat” • 189
Chapter 11. Further Thoughts on the Question of Crime • 193
PART EIGHT: VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE
Chapter 12. Crime and Punishment • 201
PART NINE: LUCY PARSONs
Chapter 13. The Principles of Anarchism • 229
PART TEN: ALEXANDER BERKMAN
Chapter 14. Prisons and Crime • 243
Chapter 15. Law and Government • 249
PART ELEVEN: EMMA GOLDMAN
Chapter 16. The Traffic in Women • 259
Chapter 17. Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure • 271
Afterword by Luis A. Fernandez • 283
Index • 287
About the author
Luis A. Fernandez, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Policing Dissent, Contemporary Anarchist Studies, and Shutting Down the Streets. His work also appears in various book chapters and journals, including Social Justice, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Criminology, and Qualitative Sociology. His most recent research focuses on the alt-right and the emergence of neo-fascism. Fernandez is currently serving as the President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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