Contemporary Anarchist Criminology

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute for Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed book chapters or articles and over forty books. Mark Seis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He has published on a variety of topics ranging from the juvenile death penalty to environmental policy. Jeff Shantz, Ph.D., currently teaches critical theory, elite deviance, and community organizing in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Metro Vancouver, Canada.

“This valuable collection presents a strong critique of structures of oppression and injustice. It introduces important new perspectives that are vital for building a critical criminology and for creating much-needed radical transformation.”—John Sorenson, Professor, Department of Sociology, Brock University

• Luis A. Fernandez: Foreword – Acknowledgements – Anthony J. Nocella II/Mark Seis/Jeff Shantz: Introduction: The Rise of Anarchist Criminology – Jeff Ferrell: Against the Law: Anarchist Criminology – Harold E. Pepinsky: Communist Anarchism as an Alternative to the Rule of Criminal – Jeff Shantz: Lombroso and the Anarchists: Anarchism in the Formation of Criminology – Colleen Hackett/Ben Turk: "Freedom First": Pursuing Abolition Through Supporting Prisoner Resistance – Laura Magnani: From Prison Abolition to Transformative Justice – Mark Seis: An Anarchist Criminology for Understanding Environmental Degradation – Reverend David "Wolf Eyes" Rose, Sr.: The Staff of Chronos – Maurice L. Graham: Actual Connections to Slavery in the Prison System – Sean Swain: On Crime and Deviance – Contributors – Index.