Paul B. Stretesky - Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime

Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime

The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology
Series Editor: Stuart Henry

Titles in the Series:

Anomie, Strain and Subcultural Theories of Crime
Robert Agnew and Joanne M. Kaufman

Social Learning Theories of Crime
Ronald L. Akers, Christine S. Sellers and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr

Postmodernist and Post-Structuralist Theories of Crime
Bruce A. Arrigo and Dragan Milovanovic

Biosocial Theories of Crime
Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh

Feminist Theories of Crime
Meda Chesney-Lind and Merry Morash

Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime
Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward

Interactionist, Labeling and Social Constructionist Theories of Crime
Stuart Henry and Ross L. Matsueda

Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime
Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky

Psychological, Developmental and Lifecourse Theories of Crime
Paul Mazerolle and Tara Renae McGee

Rational Choice, Situational Choice and Routine Activities Theories of Crime
Mangai Natarajan

Social Control and Self-Control Theories of Crime and Deviance
Joseph H. Rankin and L. Edward Wells

Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime
Jeffery T. Walker

Edited by
Michael J. Lynch
University of South Florida, USA
and
Paul B. Stretesky
University of Colorado, Denver, USA

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing

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Radical and Marxist theories of crime. (The library of essays in theoretical criminology)
1. CrimeSociological aspects. 2. Critical criminology. 3. Philosophy, Marxist.
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American Sociological Association for the essays: David Jacobs (1979), 'Inequality and Police Strength: Conflict Theory and Coercive Control in Metropolitan Areas', American Sociological Review, 44, pp. 913-25.

American Society of Criminology for the essays: Olena Antonaccio and Charles R. Tittle (2007), 'A Cross-National Test of Bonger's Theory of Criminality and Economic Conditions', Criminology, 45, pp. 925-58; Raymond J. Michalowski and Susan M. Carlson 1999), 'Unemployment, Imprisonment and Social Structures of Accumulation: Historical Contingency in the Rusche-Kirchheimer Hypothesis', Criminology, 37, pp. 21749.

Sage Publications for the essays: David M. Gordon (1971), 'Class and the Economics of Crime', The Review of Radical Political Economics, 3, pp. 51 72: Steve Hall and Craig McLean (2009), 'A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Preliminary Spatial and Historical Comparisons of Homicide Rates in Western Europe and the US', Theoretical Criminology, 13, pp. 31339. Copyright The Author(s); Ronald C. Kramer (2000), 'Poverty, Inequality and Youth Violence', The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, 567, pp. 123-39.

Social Justice for the essays: Herman Schweninger and Julia Schwendinger (1977), 'Social Class and the Definition of Crime', Crime and Social Justice, , pp. 4-13; Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs (2006), 'The State of the Criminology of State Crime', Social Justice , , pp. 147-61; Julia Schwendinger and Herman Schwendinger (1981), 'Rape, Sexual Inequality and Levels of Violence', Crime and Social Justice , 16 , pp. 3-31; Sidney L. Harring and Lorraine M. McMullin (1975), 'The Buffalo Police, 1872-1900: Labor Unrest, Political Power and the Creation of the Police Institution', Crime and Social Justice, , pp. 5-14.

Springer for the essays: Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tombs (2007), 'From 'Crime' to Social Harm?', Crime, Law and Social Change , 48, pp. 9-25. Copyright 2007 Springer Science + Business Media; Raymond J. Michalowski (1996), 'Critical Criminology and the Critique of Domination: the Story of an Intellectual Movement', Critical Criminology, , pp. 9-16; William J. Chambliss (1975), 'Toward a Political Economy of Crime', Theory and Society, 2, pp. 149-70. Copyright 1975 William J. Chambliss; Steven E. Barkan (2009), 'The Value of Quantitative Analysis for a Critical Understanding of Crime and Society', Critical Criminology, 17, pp. 247-59. Copyright 2009 Springer Science + Business Media; Jock Young (1987), 'The Task Facing a Realist Criminology', Contemporary Crises, 11, pp. 337-56. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; Walter S. DeKeseredy and Colin Goff (1992), 'Corporate Violence against Canadian Women: Assesing Left-Realist Research and Policy', The Journal of Human Justice, 4, pp. 55-70; Michael J. Lynch, W. Byron Groves and Alan Lizotte (1994), 'The Rate of Surplus Value and Crime: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Marxian Economic Theory and Criminology', Crime, Law and Social Change, 21, pp. 1548. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers; Alessandro De Giorgi (2007), 'Toward a Political Economy of Post-Fordist Punishment', Critical Criminology' , 15 , pp. 243-65. Copyright 2007 Springer Science + Business Media.

The University of California Press for the essays: Steven Spitzer (1975), 'Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance', Social Problems, 22, pp. 638-51.

The University of Chicago Press for the essays: Mark Colvin and John Pauly (1983), 'A Critique of Criminology: Toward and Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory of Delinquency Production', American Journal of Sociology, 90, pp. 513-51. Copyright 1983 the University of Chicago Press.

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Because of its pervasive nature in our mass mediated culture, many believe they are experts in understanding the reasons why offenders violate the law. Parents and schools come high on the public's list of who to blame for crime. Not far behind are governments and legal systems that are believed to be ineffective at deterring offenders - too many legal protections and too few serious sentences. Some learn how to behave inappropriately as children, while others are said to choose crime because of its apparent high reward/low cost opportunity structure. Yet others hang out with the wrong crowd, or live in the wrong neighborhood, or work for the wrong corporation, and may get their kicks from disobeying rules in the company of like-minded others. A few are seen as evil, insane or just plain stupid. While such popular representations of the causes of crime contain glimpses of the criminological reality, understanding why people commit crime is a much more complex matter. Indeed, for this reason the quest to establish the causes of crime has been one of the most elusive searches confronting humankind.