Through the new era of crime; it triggered criminologists, theorists, and technology to think outside of the box to counter act the war on crime. Harold Pepinsky and Richard Quinney introduce a new perspective called peacemaking criminology (Moloney, 2009). Peacemaking criminology is a nonviolent approach to eliminate other forms of interpersonal violence and harm (McEvoy and Newburn, 2003). It gets to the root of the problem; not just scratching the surface like the current method of correcting a problem. Peacemaking criminology can influence the concerns of mandatory arrest policies, domestic violence, and community policing that have been problematic for years (Moloney, 2009). In order to solve a problem you must get to the root of …show more content…
While others display its shortcomings such as being contradictory to the Marxist/critical theory, feminism, majority of the policies of peacemaking have long been backbone of the policy recommendations of traditional criminology, and peacemaking does not provide a plan for getting past criminal justice policies revise (Barnes, 2007). Also, this theory was never introduce into the criminal justice system. I wonder why? I propose that minimizing the force or violence is necessary to keep the peace but won’t eliminate the war on crime itself (Pepinsky, p 2). Even if we minimized the force, it will backfire on us, and increases the violence even the oppressed people whom one is trying to help will suffer to (Pepinsky, p 3). I think that this theory do not have sufficient grounds to change the entire criminal justice system when we look at the full ram of crimes that are committed. Also, this theory caused the police officers to stoop to the levels of the individuals involved with a mandatory arrest policy; police officers do not have the fortitude or foresight to use discretion but instead make an arrest or use violence due to protocol (Molony, 2009). I am in the agreement that we need a new approach to counter act rates of crime, criminality and recidivism but peacemaking criminology is not the answer to war on