{"product_id":"erich-fromm-and-critical-criminology","title":"Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology","description":"\u003cp\u003e Linking the writings of the great humanist psychologist Erich Fromm to criminology, this collection shows how viewing crime patterns and the criminal justice system from Fromm's humanist perspective opens a path to more effective and more humane ways of understanding and dealing with crime and criminals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors to Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology draw on Fromm's writings on alienation, sadomasochism, and patriarchal\/matriarchal values to assess the kinds of crimes being committed and the kinds of people committing them. They explore the spiritual and intellectual sources of Fromm's thought--including Jewish theology, Freudian psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Buddhism--and demonstrate how his socialist humanism points toward a society free of crime and violence. This volume also includes translations of two of Fromm's early articles on criminal justice, never before available in English, in which he develops a psychoanalytic Marxist critique of the role of criminal justice in a class society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At a time when American society seems bent, to an unprecedented degree, on imprisonment, executions, and other violent responses to the problem of crime, Fromm's humanist critique offers a unique vantage point from which to renew and develop a critical criminology. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258584748376,"sku":"9780252068300","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/erich-fromm-and-critical-criminology","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}