Crime and Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Criminology

Author: David F. Greenberg
Published: March 1993
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1566390265
Paperback Book
Number of Pages: 761

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Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Marx and Engels on Crime and Punishment 37
1 Crime and Primitive Accumulation 45
2 The Demoralization of the English Working Class 48
3 Crime in Communist Society 51
4 The Usefulness of Crime 52
5 The Labeling of Crime 54
6 On Capital Punishment 55
Pt. 2 The Causes of Crime 57
1 Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood, and Working-Class Composition 100
2 Goths and Vandals: Crime in History 122
3 Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging: Common Rights and Class Relations in the Postbellum South 142
4 Organized Crime and Class Politics 169
5 Urban Crime and Capitalist Accumulation, 1950-1971 194
6 The Social Economy of Arson: Vandals, Gangsters, Bankers, and Officials in the Making of an Urban Problem 211
7 Wealth, Crime, and Capital Accumulation 258
8 Auto Theft and the Role of Big Business 265
9 The Production of Black Violence in Chicago 279
10 Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society 334
11 Rape, Sexual Inequality, and Levels of Violence 357
12 The Gendering of Crime in Marxist Theory 405
Pt. 3 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 443
1 The Dialectics of Crime Control 463
2 A Reinterpretation of Criminal Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century England 509
3 The Walnut Street Jail: A Penal Reform to Centralize the Powers of the State 533
4 Policing a Class Society: The Expansion of the Urban Police in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 546
5 The Political Economy of Policing 568
6 At Hard Labor: Penal Confinement and Production in Nineteenth-Century America 595
7 Convict Leasing: An Application of the Rusche-Kirchheimer Thesis to Penal Changes in Tennessee, 1830-1915 612
8 The Cooptation of Fixed Sentencing Reform 621
9 The Enforcement of Anti-Monopoly Legislation 641
10 The Standards of Living in Penal Institutions 649
Pt. 4 Crime and Revolution: Is Crime Progressive? 665
1 Crime, the Crisis of Capitalism, and Social Revolution 674
2 Gangs and Progress: The Contribution of Delinquency to Progressive Reform 689
Pt. 5 Praxis and Marxian Criminology 737
Glossary 751
Index 757

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