Criminal Justice & Criminology: Libertarian Realism exposes government's criminality.

Rex Curry

Criminology and criminal justice are areas of fascinating research. Critical criminology has evolved over the past two decades and a number of new sub-branches have developed. Most popular research would be improved by greater emphasis on the branch of criminology known as "Minarchist Realism" or "Libertarian Realism."

Libertarian realism attempts to reconcile critical views with the social realities of crime and its impact on all individuals. It questions the common perception of government as a "crime fighter," and examines the many ways in which government aids and abets crime and criminality. It asks whether government is part of the problem, and not the solution. Government foments much more crime than it solves. It kills more people than it saves. It is the main source of crime and inspires crime in individuals. http://rexcurry.net/criminology-criminal-justice.html

Minarchist realism promotes minimum government (examining how close everyone can progress toward eliminating government altogether), because government is the main source of crime, and justice is best served by constantly reducing the size and scope of government. It echoes the sentment of Thomas Paine: "That government is best which governs least."

The noted criminologist Dr. Rex Curry contributes to minarchist realism and he has pointed out that the worst murderers in history arose in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 milliion under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Socialists are the worst criminals.

Even some of the worst individual serial killers were products of socialism. That topic was addressed in an earlier Opinion Editorials article at http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rcurry_20061013.html

As a defense attorney in the criminal courts, Dr. Curry represented accused felons of all types, including people facing the death penalty for murder in the USA. He never defended anyone as murderous as governments and government officials. Government and socialism make the worst homicide defendant seem angelic in comparison.

Government also evades criminal justice. The worst socialist killers were never charged, tried, convicted nor executed. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.jpg

The nobel laureate Milton Friedman pointed out that the Food and Drug Administration kills more people than it saves. The so-called "War on Drugs" is another example of how government causes more death and destruction than it prevents. Modern prohibition is a recidivist act by a government (and government employees) that was unpunished and unrepentent after its criminality in old prohibition (alcohol prohibition). Many of the government employees under old prohibition were promoted in their ever-growing bureaucracies into other newer expansions of government violence.

Radical libertarianism has tried to explain how socialism places particular stress on all individuals, women or men, and to explicate the role of government dominance in general criminality. Libertarian realists recognize that predatory crimes are not revolutionary acts other than when they are large-scale criminal acts committed by government and government officials. The only proper purpose of government is to protect people from violence and theft. Government often does the opposite.

Self-defense and the Constitutional guarantees of the Second Amendement in the Bill of Rights are important in the field of minarchist realism. Crime is an overwhelming problem perpetrated foremost by government and politicians against individuals in a society. Regardless of its origins, according to libertarian realists, crime must be dealt with by individuals protecting themselves from all criminals, be they street thugs or government employees. Minarchists remind readers that the second amendment was not intended to protect recreational hunting; it was intended for individuals to protect themselves from their own government.
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Radical Libertarianism provides a comparison to radical feminism. According to the book "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry J. Siegel and Joseph J. Senna, radical feminism has tried to explain how capitalism places particular stress on women and to explicate the role of male dominance in female criminality. Siegel and Senna discuss "radical feminism" in conjunction with "left realism." The Siegel/Senna book was the first textbook used by Professor Rex Curry as a college instructor in criminal justice and it inspired some of Dr. Curry's work in the field of minarchist realism. Wikpedia is helping to announce Dr. Curry's criminology work in minarchist realism and libertarian realism.

Peacemaking criminology views crime as just one form of violence among many that are caused or exacerbated by government, such as war, genocide and democide. Peacemakers call for universal recognition in justice of individual rights and property rights as a means of eliminating anti social acts. They argue that the old methods of government are a failure and that new methods must be recognized wherein the government is not the initiator of violence against non-violent acts among consenting adults. When statists insult libertarian ideas and claim that the crime rate dropped in the 1990s because the number of people in prison was at an all-time high, libertarian peacemakers counter by citing studies showing that imprisonment rates are not related to crime rates (especially for non-violent acts that should not be considered "crimes" at all), and that no consistent finding has been reached that locking peaceful people up helps reduce crimes, and that upward of two-thirds of all prison inmates recidivate soon after their release.

Liberty criminology and Peacemaking criminology serve as the basis of the restorative justice perspective. Rather than being adversarial and punitive, the justice system should strive to restore damaged individuals and their rights. Harsh punishments have become the norm. The free-market economy provides many alternatives including arbitration, mediation, restitution, insurance, self-defense tools, private security, and even private court systems. This call for justice has helped to focus attention on the plight of individuals when they confront government officials, governments, and the justice system. Programs that have developed as a result include inexpensive methods of protection for the indigent and everyone through capitalism, laws protecting Second Amendment rights, and private institutions to aid victims of government abuse.

Another way in which government spreads criminality is by taking over education, and by operating government schools (socialist schools). That topic will be addressed in additional articles.

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net