This book traces the life course of Richard Quinney one of the most cited authors in the
social sciences and a key figure in the development of critical criminology in the 70s 80s and
90s. It provides a look into his personal thoughts in becoming a 'radical' criminologist and
situates it in his various experiences questioning and shifts in his journey through life.
Richard has contributed to a profound paradigm shift in criminology beginning with his book
The Social Reality of Crime (1970) but also to peacemaking criminology as well as peace
studies. He has also written several books via an autoethnography approach and has presented a
number of photograph presentations for which he has received awards. It traces his early
development on the family farm in Wisconsin to his travels in higher academe. It gives a
personal perspective in becoming not only a radical criminologist an accomplished writer in
auto-ethnography visual sociology and photography but also how his continuous questioning of
the meaning of it all came to fruition with profound insights about what it is to be human. The
book will be inspirational to not only seasoned veterans in criminology but also to emerging
scholars to undergrads and grads showing them the struggles that come in 'making it'.
