The Social Reality of Crime

Richard Quinney's The Social Reality of Crime remains an eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice

1: A Theory of Crime; 1: The Social Reality of Crime; 2: Formulation of Criminal Definitions; 2: Criminal Law in Politically Organized Society; 3: Interests in the Formulation of Criminal Laws; 3: Application of Criminal Definitions; 4: Enforcement of Criminal Law; 5: Administration of Criminal Justice; 6: Penal and Correctional Administration; 4: The Social Basis of Politics; 7: Societal Organization and the Structuring of Behavior Patterns; 8: Action Patterns of the Criminally Defined; 5: Construction of Criminal Conceptions; 9: Public Conceptions of Crime; 10: The Politics of Reality