Full Description
In this concise and valuable collection of essays, Louis J. Gesualdi provides readers with an understanding of peacemaking criminology. Peacemaking criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach in its treatment of crime and the offender. It looks at crime as just one of the many types of suffering that exemplify human life. Efforts to put a stop to such suffering—according to peacemaking criminologists—should take into account a main rebuilding of America's social institutions, such as the economic system, the criminal justice system, and the health care system so that they no longer create suffering. The United States as a society pays no notice to prevention, but rather adheres to the belief of imprisonment and punishment. The twelve essays in this book focus on how peacemaking criminology aids in the prevention of crime, the rehabilitation of offenders, and involves the core principles of social justice and human rights.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Peacemaking Perspective to Criminology
Chapter 2: The Muscogee Community: Peacemaking Criminology
Chapter 3: The Work of John Augustus: Peacemaking Criminology
Chapter 4: The Future of Healthcare in the United States
Chapter 5: Peacemaking Acts and Programs to Cut Adult and Teen Crime
Chapter 6: Popularly Held Beliefs about Organized Crime: A Peacemaking Critique
Chapter 7: A Peacemaking Approach Dealing with the Criminal Elite
Chapter 8: Human Capitalism
Chapter 9: Social Characteristics that Favor the Development of Creative Genius: A Peacemaking View
Chapter 10: A Development of Economic Democracy
Chapter 11: Lessons Learned from Leonardo to Help Develop More Creative Individuals
Chapter 12: Future Peacemaking Research
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
