Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime

David Polizzi is Associate Professor in the Criminology & Criminal Justice department at Indiana State University. He has taught as an adjunct at a variety of Pittsburgh area colleges since 1990. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University in 2002 and worked therapeutically with offender populations both in the community and in a maximum security penitentiary setting. He is the Editor in Chief of The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology.

• Phenomenology, Social Construction, and Criminality: Some Beginning Observations;The Phenomenology of the Social Construction of Crime: Social Context and Structural Realities, and the Meaning of being;The Social Construction of Criminal Behavior: toward a phenomenology of strain;Some closing reflections.

"There is nobody else who could so commandingly occupy the disciplines of criminology, philosophy and psychology to write such a book. It will become the standard text." Anthony Amatrudo, Middlesex University