How Long to Read Critique of Legal Order

How Long Does it Take to Read Critique of Legal Order?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Critique of Legal Order by Richard Quinney

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, he argues that the legal order is not intended to reduce crime and suffering, but to maintain class differences and a social order that mainly benefits the ruling class. Quinney challenges modern criminologists to examine their own positions. As "ancillary agents of power," criminologists provide information that governing elites use to manipulate and control those who threaten the system. Quinney's original and thorough analysis of "crime control bureaucracies" and the class basis of such bureaucracies anticipates subsequent research and theorizing about the "crime control industry," a system that aims at social control of marginalized populations, rather than elimination of the social conditions that give rise to crime. He forcefully argues that technology applied to a "war against crime," together with academic scholarship, is used to help maintain social order to benefit a ruling class. Quinney also suggests alternatives. Anticipating the work of Noam Chomsky, he suggests we must first overcome a powerful media that provides a "general framework" that serves as the "boundary of expression." Chomsky calls this the manufacture of consent by providing necessary illusions. Quinney calls for a critical philosophy that enables us to transcend the current order and seek an egalitarian socialist order based upon true democratic principles. This core study for criminologists should interest those with a critical perspective on contemporary society.

How long is Critique of Legal Order?

Critique of Legal Order by Richard Quinney is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Critique of Legal Order Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Critique of Legal Order aloud.

What Reading Level is Critique of Legal Order?

Critique of Legal Order is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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