Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic
critique of criminal justice and among the first to directly criticize
academic criminology while formulating a critical criminology. They
identified the sources of social problems in social structures and
relations of inequality and recognized that the institutions preferred by
mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were
actually the causes or enablers of those harms in the first place. This
volume collects critical writings on criminology from radicals and thinkers
like William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikahil Bakunin, Peter
Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, and many others.