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Liberal v. Radical Criminology, cont.: A Reponse from Tony Platt

By Jonathan Simor

I'm posting this for Tony Platt since its a wee bit too long for the comment field---------------Thanks for your comments on the "Politics of Protest" session.You might have pointed out that the heart of my comments focused, not on the School of Criminology at Berkeley, but on the strengths and weaknesses of the ideas in the original POP, and a critique of Skolnick's introduction to the new introduction (in which, in my view, he minimizes ongoing problems of racism and uncritically praises the Obama regime.)I have a few initial comments on your views about liberalism and radicalism (below):(1) By "liberalism" I assume you mean social democratic liberalism, that occupied a central role in American politics from early 20th century through the Clinton government...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).