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  • Quinney, Richard
    Richard Quinney

    Taking a neo-Marxist approach in Critique of Legal Order (1974), he introduced a theory of legal order intended to demystify the false consciousness that he maintained was created by official reality. He built on this early work in the book Class, State, and Crime (1977), in which he argued that…

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    Taking a neo-Marxist approach in Critique of Legal Order (1974), he introduced a theory of legal order intended to demystify the false consciousness that he maintained was created by official reality. He built on this early work in the book Class, State, and Crime (1977), in which he argued that…

    Read More