Anthony M Platt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony M Platt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony M |
| FAMILY NAME | Platt |
| SIGNATURE | PLATT A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond These Walls
"Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested,…
U.S. Race Relations at the Crossroads in California
If you believe, as I do, in racial equality as a matter of moral principle and in the incompatibility of political democracy with racial hierarchy, then you will no doubt agree that we live in very difficult times, and that the end of the millennium gives more grounds for sorrow than celebration. Optimism is more than difficult when so many visions have gone unrealized and so much ground has been lost. Because race is such a deep and enduring wou…
Crime Rave
Every politician running for office in the November elections recognized that law-and-order demagoguery was the ticket to success. Though the Republicans proved themselves tougher and nastier than Bill Clinton's New Democrats, as far as criminal justice policies are concerned, it made little difference which party triumphed. By 1992, the traditional liberal agenda on crime prevention, community development, mediation, rehabilitation, and abolitio…
Inventing Criminology
E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered
E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered
Journal Article E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered. By Anthony M. Platt. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xiv + 278 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8135-1631-3.) Get access Raymond Wolters Raymond Wolters University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 739, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080003 Published: 01 September …
Academia at the Crossroads
A plenary session—no, several plenary sessions—on the holy trinity of "class, race, and gender" at a national criminology conference! Maybe it's true that, as Alan Bloom, Dinesh D'Souza, Roger Kimball, and the countless critics of "political correctness" have been telling us, the 1960s radicals have become the tenured ruling class of academia in the 1990s.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are…
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Just One
Racism in Academia
My comments today reflect work I have been doing on the life and work of E. Franklin Frazier, Afro-American intellectual, sociologist, and activist who lived from 1894 to 1962. I will use his experience to make some general observations about the recent history of racism in academia, particularly with respect to racism against black students, intellectuals, and academics. (This does not pretend to be a systematic assessment, but rather a starting…
Crime and Social Justice
This new series aims to publish work within the radical criminology perspective.It is international in its scope, providing a rallying point for work in this rapidly growing field.The substantive areas covered are the sociology of crime, deviance, social problems, law and sexual deviance.It includes work in ethnography, historical criminology and the practice of social work and law as it relates to radical criminology.The series is two-tiered, pu…
Policing America
Policing America
Juvenile Delinquency in Perspective
Studying the dangerous classes
The Child Savers
The Rise of the Child-Saving Movement
Contemporary programs of delinquency-control can be traced to the enterprising reforms of the child-savers who, at the end of the nineteenth century, helped to create special judicial and correctional institutions for the labeling, processing, and management of "troublesome" youth. Child- saving was a conservative and romantic movement, designed to impose sanctions on conduct unbecoming youth and to dis qualify youth from enjoying adult privilege…
Critical Notice
Journal Article CRITICAL NOTICE Get access ORGANIZATION FOR TREATMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONS FOR DELINQUENTS. By DAVID STREET, ROBERT D. VINTER and CHARLES PERROW. [New York: The Free Press. 1966. 330 pp. 63S.] Anthony Platt Anthony Platt *Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 7, Issue 4, Octobe…
The Child Savers
The Rise of the Child-Saving Movement
Contemporary programs of delinquency-control can be traced to the enterprising reforms of the child-savers who, at the end of the nineteenth century, helped to create special judicial and correctional institutions for the labeling, processing, and management of "troublesome" youth. Child- saving was a conservative and romantic movement, designed to impose sanctions on conduct unbecoming youth and to dis qualify youth from enjoying adult privilege…
Racism in Academia
My comments today reflect work I have been doing on the life and work of E. Franklin Frazier, Afro-American intellectual, sociologist, and activist who lived from 1894 to 1962. I will use his experience to make some general observations about the recent history of racism in academia, particularly with respect to racism against black students, intellectuals, and academics. (This does not pretend to be a systematic assessment, but rather a starting…
Juvenile Delinquency in Perspective
Crime Rave
Every politician running for office in the November elections recognized that law-and-order demagoguery was the ticket to success. Though the Republicans proved themselves tougher and nastier than Bill Clinton's New Democrats, as far as criminal justice policies are concerned, it made little difference which party triumphed. By 1992, the traditional liberal agenda on crime prevention, community development, mediation, rehabilitation, and abolitio…
Critical Notice
Journal Article CRITICAL NOTICE Get access ORGANIZATION FOR TREATMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONS FOR DELINQUENTS. By DAVID STREET, ROBERT D. VINTER and CHARLES PERROW. [New York: The Free Press. 1966. 330 pp. 63S.] Anthony Platt Anthony Platt *Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 7, Issue 4, Octobe…
The Rise of the Child-Saving Movement
Contemporary programs of delinquency-control can be traced to the enterprising reforms of the child-savers who, at the end of the nineteenth century, helped to create special judicial and correctional institutions for the labeling, processing, and management of "troublesome" youth. Child- saving was a conservative and romantic movement, designed to impose sanctions on conduct unbecoming youth and to dis qualify youth from enjoying adult privilege…
The Child Savers
Studying the dangerous classes
Juvenile Delinquency in Perspective
Policing America
Policing America
Crime and Social Justice
This new series aims to publish work within the radical criminology perspective.It is international in its scope, providing a rallying point for work in this rapidly growing field.The substantive areas covered are the sociology of crime, deviance, social problems, law and sexual deviance.It includes work in ethnography, historical criminology and the practice of social work and law as it relates to radical criminology.The series is two-tiered, pu…
Racism in Academia
My comments today reflect work I have been doing on the life and work of E. Franklin Frazier, Afro-American intellectual, sociologist, and activist who lived from 1894 to 1962. I will use his experience to make some general observations about the recent history of racism in academia, particularly with respect to racism against black students, intellectuals, and academics. (This does not pretend to be a systematic assessment, but rather a starting…
Just One
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered
E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered
Journal Article E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered. By Anthony M. Platt. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. xiv + 278 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8135-1631-3.) Get access Raymond Wolters Raymond Wolters University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 739, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080003 Published: 01 September …
Academia at the Crossroads
A plenary session—no, several plenary sessions—on the holy trinity of "class, race, and gender" at a national criminology conference! Maybe it's true that, as Alan Bloom, Dinesh D'Souza, Roger Kimball, and the countless critics of "political correctness" have been telling us, the 1960s radicals have become the tenured ruling class of academia in the 1990s.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are…
Inventing Criminology
Crime Rave
Every politician running for office in the November elections recognized that law-and-order demagoguery was the ticket to success. Though the Republicans proved themselves tougher and nastier than Bill Clinton's New Democrats, as far as criminal justice policies are concerned, it made little difference which party triumphed. By 1992, the traditional liberal agenda on crime prevention, community development, mediation, rehabilitation, and abolitio…
U.S. Race Relations at the Crossroads in California
If you believe, as I do, in racial equality as a matter of moral principle and in the incompatibility of political democracy with racial hierarchy, then you will no doubt agree that we live in very difficult times, and that the end of the millennium gives more grounds for sorrow than celebration. Optimism is more than difficult when so many visions have gone unrealized and so much ground has been lost. Because race is such a deep and enduring wou…
Beyond These Walls
"Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested,…
Sociology (14 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)