Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the author of many books, including Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society, also published by SUNY Press. Dragan Milovanovic is Professor of Justice Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of many books, including An Introduction to the Sociology of Law. Robert Carl Schehr is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University and the author of Dynamic Utopia: Establishing Intentional Communities as a New Social Movement.

Introduction

1. Establishing the First Wave: The Linguistic Turn in Social Theory

2. Sustaining the First Wave: More on the Linguistic Turn in Social Theory

3. The Second Wave: Interpreting the Past, Building the Present, and Looking Toward the Future

4. Confinement Law and Prison Resistance: Applications in Critical Penology

5. Critical Race Theory and Postmodern Analysis: Strength in Dialectical Unity

6. Cinema and Literary Texts, Différance, and Social Justice Studies

7. Restorative Justice and Victim Offender Mediation: Towards a Transformative Praxis

8. Social Movements as Nonlinearity: On Innocence Projects and Intentional Communities

Conclusion: Back to the Future: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change

Notes

References

Index