David O Friedrichs
Biographic Data
| ID | 245405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David O Friedrichs |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | O Friedrichs |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDRICHS D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Scranton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3971-7389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Obituary
after a very long struggle with cancer.Anyone who knew David was aware that he was a unique person!He combined a warm heart that made him friends with hundreds, with tremendous scholarship and insight that made him a worldwide leader in critical criminology and the study of crimes of the powerful.How surprised the medical staff were when he announced a trip to the American Society of Criminology Annual (ASC) Meeting in mid-November to host the Pr…
Covid-19 and the U.S. Health Care Industry: Towards a “Critical Health Criminology” within State Crime Studies
The core claim of this article is that critical criminology offers us an especially potent framework for interpreting state-corporate crime with the health care industry in the United States as one illustrative case, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The unprecedented, surreal pandemic crisis that surfaced in 2020 brought into especially sharp relief many of the core claims of critical criminology in relation to domination, ineq…
Edwin H. Sutherland
Edwin H. Sutherland is widely identified as the single most important and influential criminologist of the twentieth century. He is especially well-known for his path-breaking criminology textbook (first published in 1924), his promotion of a sociological (and scientific) approach to the understanding of crime and its control, his theory of differential association, and his work over his final ten years on white-collar crime, a term he is credite…
Edwin H. Sutherland: An Improbable Criminological Key Thinker—For Critical Criminologists and for Mainstream Criminologists
Organizational Deviance
Since this encyclopedia was first published in 2007 the financial crisis of 2008 and after potently reinforced the notion of organizational deviance. The economy was severely battered by deceptive and fraudulent practices deeply embedded with the culture of major financial organizations (Friedrichs, 2013; Mandis, 2013). Recognition of the profound harmfulness of the activities of such financial organizations was exemplified by the Occupy Wall Str…
State-Corporate Crime and Major Financial Institutions: Interrogating an Absence
The concept of state-corporate crime has been invoked and applied quite widely for more than 20 years now. We acknowledge the value of this concept but here address some of its conceptual limitations, especially in relation to crimes of large-scale investment and commercial banks, government-sponsored enterprises and international financial institutions. If the concept of state-corporate crime calls attention to the character and consequences of …
Mortgage origination fraud and the global economic crisis: Incremental versus transformative policy initiatives
That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions in State Crime Studies
Organizational Deviance
Deviance has most typically been viewed in individualistic terms. But some of the most significant and consequential deviance and crime is carried out on behalf of organizations, and through the resources that only organizations are able to provide. Accordingly, in the most common invocation of the term organizational deviance, the organization is conceived of as the “actor” that carries out deviant and criminal activities (Bamberger & Sonnenstuh…
Enron Et Al: Paradigmatic White Collar Crime Cases for the New Century
Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice: In Search of a Radical Humanistic Perspective
Human Rights and Revolutions
Law in Our Lives: An Introduction
A commitment to justice at a jesuit university: A comparison of criminal justice majors to non-majors
While both criminal justice programs and Jesuit institutions claim commitment to the realization of justice, their conceptions of justice differ. This exploratory survey of 31 criminal justice majors and 51 non-majors compares criminal justice majors' concept of justice with that of non-criminal justice majors. We find that criminal justice majors and non-majors generally do not differ in their views of justice or their rank of goals for specific…
The State of State Crime Research: A Commentary
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
The most-cited scholars and works in critical criminology
Previous studies that reported the most-cited scholars and works in criminology and criminal justice journals and textbooks neglected the contributions of critical criminologists to crime and justice scholarship. This paper extends citation analysis to the study of critical criminology. Through an examination of 18 books published from 1980 to 1997 and three journals published from 1991 to 1995, we list the 50 most-cited scholars in critical crim…
Cultural Criminology
Critical criminology and progressive pluralism: Strength in diversity for these times
Crime wars and peacemaking criminology
In the mid‐1990s, the long‐standing “war on crime” has acquired a new momentum. A major public opinion poll in January 1994 showed 37 percent of the respondents believing that crime is the nation's premier problem; this is twice as high as it had been only five months earlier, and four times the figure for January 1993 (USA Today, January 25, 1994). President Clinton, in his first State of the Union address in 1994, highlighted the crime problem …
Postmodern Thought and Criminological Discontent: New Metaphors for Understanding Violence
Although postmodern theory has virtually exploded throughout the social sciences, thus far it has only begun to touch criminology. This piece identifies some of the principal themes associated with postmodern thought, reasons for the current interest in it, and its potential relevance for criminology. There are many postmodernisms, but special attention is paid here to the popular models borrowed from literary and linguistic analysis. Violence is…
White collar crime and the definitional quagmire: A provisional solution
White-collar crime in the criminal justice curriculum
Recognition of the significance of white-collar crime has grown substantially in recent years, but this growth has not been reflected adequately in the field of criminal justice or in the criminal justice curriculum. Through a content analysis of criminal justice and criminology textbooks and program course offerings the authors demonstrate the relative neglect of white-collar crime, and especially its marginal position in the criminal justice cu…
Law in South Africa and the Legitimacy Crisis
South Africa is presently confronting the possibility of a fundamental change in its political structure. In this context it is useful to consider the special character of the South African legal system and its role in the on-going legitimacy crisis in that country. This article attempts to delineate some of the principal dimensions of law and the types of legitimation issues in South Africa. It suggests that students of law and criminal justice …
Night and Fog
Bringing Ourselves Back in: The Reflexive Dimension in Teaching a Humanist Sociology
The Legitimacy Crisis in the United States: A Conceptual Analysis
A "legitimacy crisis" is widely perceived to exist on the basis of polls of public attitudes reflecting a precipitous decline in confidence in societal leadership, increasing manifestations of illegal, antisocial and repressive behavior or policies, and the demonstrable structural failures of the state to respond to fundamental human needs. Some attention is given to the fact that there are different types of legitimacy crises, that delegitimatio…
Postmodern Thought and Criminological Discontent: New Metaphors for Understanding Violence
Although postmodern theory has virtually exploded throughout the social sciences, thus far it has only begun to touch criminology. This piece identifies some of the principal themes associated with postmodern thought, reasons for the current interest in it, and its potential relevance for criminology. There are many postmodernisms, but special attention is paid here to the popular models borrowed from literary and linguistic analysis. Violence is…
State-Corporate Crime and Major Financial Institutions: Interrogating an Absence
The concept of state-corporate crime has been invoked and applied quite widely for more than 20 years now. We acknowledge the value of this concept but here address some of its conceptual limitations, especially in relation to crimes of large-scale investment and commercial banks, government-sponsored enterprises and international financial institutions. If the concept of state-corporate crime calls attention to the character and consequences of …
That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions in State Crime Studies
Bringing Ourselves Back in: The Reflexive Dimension in Teaching a Humanist Sociology
Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice: In Search of a Radical Humanistic Perspective
The State of State Crime Research: A Commentary
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
White collar crime and the definitional quagmire: A provisional solution
The problem of reconciling divergent perspectives on urban crime: Personal experience, social ideology and scholarly research
Covid-19 and the U.S. Health Care Industry: Towards a “Critical Health Criminology” within State Crime Studies
The core claim of this article is that critical criminology offers us an especially potent framework for interpreting state-corporate crime with the health care industry in the United States as one illustrative case, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The unprecedented, surreal pandemic crisis that surfaced in 2020 brought into especially sharp relief many of the core claims of critical criminology in relation to domination, ineq…
Mortgage origination fraud and the global economic crisis: Incremental versus transformative policy initiatives
Critical criminology and progressive pluralism: Strength in diversity for these times
Enron Et Al: Paradigmatic White Collar Crime Cases for the New Century
Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice: In Search of a Radical Humanistic Perspective
Crime wars and peacemaking criminology
In the mid‐1990s, the long‐standing “war on crime” has acquired a new momentum. A major public opinion poll in January 1994 showed 37 percent of the respondents believing that crime is the nation's premier problem; this is twice as high as it had been only five months earlier, and four times the figure for January 1993 (USA Today, January 25, 1994). President Clinton, in his first State of the Union address in 1994, highlighted the crime problem …
The Legitimacy Crisis in the United States: A Conceptual Analysis
A "legitimacy crisis" is widely perceived to exist on the basis of polls of public attitudes reflecting a precipitous decline in confidence in societal leadership, increasing manifestations of illegal, antisocial and repressive behavior or policies, and the demonstrable structural failures of the state to respond to fundamental human needs. Some attention is given to the fact that there are different types of legitimacy crises, that delegitimatio…
The problem of reconciling divergent perspectives on urban crime: Personal experience, social ideology and scholarly research
Introduction to the Issue
Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice: In Search of a Radical Humanistic Perspective
The Struggle to be Human: Crime, Criminology, and Anarchism
Bringing Ourselves Back in: The Reflexive Dimension in Teaching a Humanist Sociology
Night and Fog
Law in South Africa and the Legitimacy Crisis
South Africa is presently confronting the possibility of a fundamental change in its political structure. In this context it is useful to consider the special character of the South African legal system and its role in the on-going legitimacy crisis in that country. This article attempts to delineate some of the principal dimensions of law and the types of legitimation issues in South Africa. It suggests that students of law and criminal justice …
White-collar crime in the criminal justice curriculum
Recognition of the significance of white-collar crime has grown substantially in recent years, but this growth has not been reflected adequately in the field of criminal justice or in the criminal justice curriculum. Through a content analysis of criminal justice and criminology textbooks and program course offerings the authors demonstrate the relative neglect of white-collar crime, and especially its marginal position in the criminal justice cu…
White collar crime and the definitional quagmire: A provisional solution
Crime wars and peacemaking criminology
In the mid‐1990s, the long‐standing “war on crime” has acquired a new momentum. A major public opinion poll in January 1994 showed 37 percent of the respondents believing that crime is the nation's premier problem; this is twice as high as it had been only five months earlier, and four times the figure for January 1993 (USA Today, January 25, 1994). President Clinton, in his first State of the Union address in 1994, highlighted the crime problem …
Postmodern Thought and Criminological Discontent: New Metaphors for Understanding Violence
Although postmodern theory has virtually exploded throughout the social sciences, thus far it has only begun to touch criminology. This piece identifies some of the principal themes associated with postmodern thought, reasons for the current interest in it, and its potential relevance for criminology. There are many postmodernisms, but special attention is paid here to the popular models borrowed from literary and linguistic analysis. Violence is…
Critical criminology and progressive pluralism: Strength in diversity for these times
Cultural Criminology
The most-cited scholars and works in critical criminology
Previous studies that reported the most-cited scholars and works in criminology and criminal justice journals and textbooks neglected the contributions of critical criminologists to crime and justice scholarship. This paper extends citation analysis to the study of critical criminology. Through an examination of 18 books published from 1980 to 1997 and three journals published from 1991 to 1995, we list the 50 most-cited scholars in critical crim…
The State of State Crime Research: A Commentary
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
A commitment to justice at a jesuit university: A comparison of criminal justice majors to non-majors
While both criminal justice programs and Jesuit institutions claim commitment to the realization of justice, their conceptions of justice differ. This exploratory survey of 31 criminal justice majors and 51 non-majors compares criminal justice majors' concept of justice with that of non-criminal justice majors. We find that criminal justice majors and non-majors generally do not differ in their views of justice or their rank of goals for specific…
Human Rights and Revolutions
Law in Our Lives: An Introduction
Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice: In Search of a Radical Humanistic Perspective
Enron Et Al: Paradigmatic White Collar Crime Cases for the New Century
Organizational Deviance
Deviance has most typically been viewed in individualistic terms. But some of the most significant and consequential deviance and crime is carried out on behalf of organizations, and through the resources that only organizations are able to provide. Accordingly, in the most common invocation of the term organizational deviance, the organization is conceived of as the “actor” that carries out deviant and criminal activities (Bamberger & Sonnenstuh…
That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions in State Crime Studies
Mortgage origination fraud and the global economic crisis: Incremental versus transformative policy initiatives
State-Corporate Crime and Major Financial Institutions: Interrogating an Absence
The concept of state-corporate crime has been invoked and applied quite widely for more than 20 years now. We acknowledge the value of this concept but here address some of its conceptual limitations, especially in relation to crimes of large-scale investment and commercial banks, government-sponsored enterprises and international financial institutions. If the concept of state-corporate crime calls attention to the character and consequences of …
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