Harold E Pepinsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 149127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold E Pepinsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold E |
| FAMILY NAME | Pepinsky |
| SIGNATURE | PEPINSKY H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Norwegian and Polish Lessons for Keeping down Prison Populations
Criminology as peacemaking
The Geometry of Violence and Democracy
Comparative Inquiry
Information Sharing as a Human Right
A Sociology of Justice
Although literature on causes and prevention of crime now transcends disciplinary lines, it can still be categorized by the questions addressed. One line of research expands upon questions posed and answers given in the nineteenth century. Another line of research is predicated on a series of criticisms of the nineteenth-century approach, criticisms that appeared in the 1920s and 1930s. This latter line goes well beyond Marxism, offering fundamen…
Criminology as a Force for Human Tolerance
Criminology traditionally has been the study of twin forms of intolerance--crime and punishment. Punishment can only increase crime. Criminology ought to become a study of how to alleviate crime and punishment by engineering tolerance of greater varieties of human behavior, where "social control" takes on positive connations. A framework is outlined for making criminology a force for human tolerance
Myths that cause crime
The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System
Humanizing Social Control
Optimisim and Pessimism in Criminology
The contrast between the articles by Beirne, Tifft and Portes, and the remainder in the April 1979 issue of Social Problems is striking. The former three represent a humanist departure from the positivist convention in criminology. Here some implications of the difference in approach are explored and put into historical context
Crime and Conflict: A Study of Law and Society
Socialist criminology: Theory and methodology
The Growth of Crime in the United States
The growth of crime in the United States has been viewed as a social problem since the founding of the Republic. From at least the middle of the nineteenth century, this growth can be explained as an outcome of the development of crime measurement technology. American crime measurement specialists have consistently operated under a pair of assumptions: that crime is underreported rather than overreported in crime statistics and that rates of crim…
Reliance on Formal Written Law, and Freedom and Social Control in the United States and the People's Republic of China
The use of formal written law is highly developed in the United States (U.S.). Agents of the state publish innumerable substantive rules as to how people shall and shall not act, and procedural rules as to how agents of the state shall react to transgressions of the substantive rules. This rule-making, and the tradition that the rules generally can be expected to be followed both by citizens and by agents of the state, form the basis of an Americ…
Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
The people v. the principle of legality in the People's Republic of China
Is Justice Blind
I am writing in reaction to the article by Spaeth, Meltz, Rathjen and Haselswerdt, "Is Justice Blind: An Empirical Investigation of a Normative Ideal," which appeared in vol. 7, no. 1. The authors attempt to support the Aristotelian myth that blind justice can systematically obtain. The premise in the myth is fallacious, and confirmation of the authors' research hypothesis in three of their five data sets cannot therefore be an adequate basis for…
The Geometry of Violence and Democracy
Information Sharing as a Human Right
Reliance on Formal Written Law, and Freedom and Social Control in the United States and the People's Republic of China
The use of formal written law is highly developed in the United States (U.S.). Agents of the state publish innumerable substantive rules as to how people shall and shall not act, and procedural rules as to how agents of the state shall react to transgressions of the substantive rules. This rule-making, and the tradition that the rules generally can be expected to be followed both by citizens and by agents of the state, form the basis of an Americ…
The people v. the principle of legality in the People's Republic of China
A Sociology of Justice
Although literature on causes and prevention of crime now transcends disciplinary lines, it can still be categorized by the questions addressed. One line of research expands upon questions posed and answers given in the nineteenth century. Another line of research is predicated on a series of criticisms of the nineteenth-century approach, criticisms that appeared in the 1920s and 1930s. This latter line goes well beyond Marxism, offering fundamen…
The Growth of Crime in the United States
The growth of crime in the United States has been viewed as a social problem since the founding of the Republic. From at least the middle of the nineteenth century, this growth can be explained as an outcome of the development of crime measurement technology. American crime measurement specialists have consistently operated under a pair of assumptions: that crime is underreported rather than overreported in crime statistics and that rates of crim…
Humanizing Social Control
The people v. the principle of legality in the People's Republic of China
Is Justice Blind
I am writing in reaction to the article by Spaeth, Meltz, Rathjen and Haselswerdt, "Is Justice Blind: An Empirical Investigation of a Normative Ideal," which appeared in vol. 7, no. 1. The authors attempt to support the Aristotelian myth that blind justice can systematically obtain. The premise in the myth is fallacious, and confirmation of the authors' research hypothesis in three of their five data sets cannot therefore be an adequate basis for…
Reliance on Formal Written Law, and Freedom and Social Control in the United States and the People's Republic of China
The use of formal written law is highly developed in the United States (U.S.). Agents of the state publish innumerable substantive rules as to how people shall and shall not act, and procedural rules as to how agents of the state shall react to transgressions of the substantive rules. This rule-making, and the tradition that the rules generally can be expected to be followed both by citizens and by agents of the state, form the basis of an Americ…
Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
Socialist criminology: Theory and methodology
The Growth of Crime in the United States
The growth of crime in the United States has been viewed as a social problem since the founding of the Republic. From at least the middle of the nineteenth century, this growth can be explained as an outcome of the development of crime measurement technology. American crime measurement specialists have consistently operated under a pair of assumptions: that crime is underreported rather than overreported in crime statistics and that rates of crim…
Crime and Conflict: A Study of Law and Society
Optimisim and Pessimism in Criminology
The contrast between the articles by Beirne, Tifft and Portes, and the remainder in the April 1979 issue of Social Problems is striking. The former three represent a humanist departure from the positivist convention in criminology. Here some implications of the difference in approach are explored and put into historical context
Humanizing Social Control
The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System
Myths that cause crime
Criminology as a Force for Human Tolerance
Criminology traditionally has been the study of twin forms of intolerance--crime and punishment. Punishment can only increase crime. Criminology ought to become a study of how to alleviate crime and punishment by engineering tolerance of greater varieties of human behavior, where "social control" takes on positive connations. A framework is outlined for making criminology a force for human tolerance
A Sociology of Justice
Although literature on causes and prevention of crime now transcends disciplinary lines, it can still be categorized by the questions addressed. One line of research expands upon questions posed and answers given in the nineteenth century. Another line of research is predicated on a series of criticisms of the nineteenth-century approach, criticisms that appeared in the 1920s and 1930s. This latter line goes well beyond Marxism, offering fundamen…
Information Sharing as a Human Right
Comparative Inquiry
Criminology as peacemaking
The Geometry of Violence and Democracy
Norwegian and Polish Lessons for Keeping down Prison Populations
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)