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Toward A Critical Theory Of Female Criminality, Ann Curry Thompson Apr 1976

Toward A Critical Theory Of Female Criminality, Ann Curry Thompson

IUSTITIA

Twentieth-century theories about female criminality are the weakest link in conventional criminology, representing the most conservative and unscientific thinking about human nature and social organization. Traditional thinking about female criminality reflects the general inability of conventional theorists to examine categories of sex, race, and class oppression as determined by the basic social structure of a particular society and as they relate to deviance and crime. The result has been that female deviance has been analyzed solely in light of assumptions about women's biological nature. Whether there is indeed something distinctive about female crime which can be explained apart from a …


Private Markets And Social Control, Lloyd D. Orr Oct 1974

Private Markets And Social Control, Lloyd D. Orr

IUSTITIA

The continuing failure of society to deal adequately with its problems has led to criticism that goes beyond the imperfections of a fundamentally sound social organization. Individual economic incentive and private markets, the basics of our economic organization, are condemned as inherently destructive of desirable social goals. It may be that such criticism is naive with respect to the basic history of economic organization and the prospects for meaningful alternatives. It also may be that the "solutions" offered are frequently more authoritarian than the critics allege the present system to be. We are still left to ponder the vital, long-standing, …


Breach Of Contract, Damage Measures, And Economic Efficiency, Robert L. Birmingham Jan 1970

Breach Of Contract, Damage Measures, And Economic Efficiency, Robert L. Birmingham

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Our Economic Problem: The Concentration Of Wealth, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1932

Our Economic Problem: The Concentration Of Wealth, Hugh Evander Willis

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The Newer Social Scientists Look At Law, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1927

The Newer Social Scientists Look At Law, Ralph F. Fuchs

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