William Calathes

• New Jersey City University

This paper explores punishment philosophy and practices in the United States from a critical criminological perspective, utilizing a racial capitalism framework to illustrate forces that impede prison abolition. The paper examines historic and contemporary punishments implemented against ‘others’ to show how such practices help to sustain white cap...

This paper provides a framework for discussing the multicultural approach to teaching criminal justice: how it is useful, why it is important, what it can and cannot do, and how to address the legitimate criticisms to which it is subject. Suggestions about the shape of multiculturalism in criminal justice curriculum are also made. It is hoped that...

This article provides a detailed description of Project Green Hope: Services for Women, Inc., a halfway house for women offenders and the only residential facility in New York City which serves both parolees and women referred by the courts. It also analyzes the effectiveness of ProjectGreen Hope by reporting on a non-experimental study involving w...

Generally, the study of Third World crime can be approached from two acutely different theoretical perspectives. “Modernization” theory attempts to attribute crime in Third World societies to the rapid pace of industrialization and attempts to apply a variety of criminological theories that focus on the individual and the immediate social context o...