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Crime is understood as a problem of human existence. Assumed is the intersubjectivity of social reality, and the need for an interdisciplinary and integrative approach to criminology. Along the way, a consideration of (1) the relativity of things human, (2) the modes of having and being in contemporary society, (3) the interdependence of all things, and (4) the way of peace. The ideas of Erich Fromm are germane to our thinking in the development of a peacemaking criminology.
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Quinney, R. Socialist humanism and the problem of crime. Crime Law Soc Change 23, 147–156 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01298528
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