Part I considers theoretical issues, and Part II applies them to traditional concerns in criminal justice. In Part I, each chapter examines either a dominant or emerging issue in the theory of radical or critical criminology (for example, the importance of the classics in radical theory, the market economy, and the introduction of anarchist theory). In Part II, each contribution analyzes a branch of the criminal justice system (for example, white-collar crime, police, prisons, community corrections, courts/sentencing, and juvenile justice), but from a critical perspective. All contributors review the traditional literature and the extant radical and critical research and then postulate new directions that literature and practice should take. In essence, contributors are performing a sort of "edge" work (Lyng, 1990), pushing the boundaries of a mode of expression, inquiry, and research. 719 references and a subject index