Crime And Capitalism

In this expanded and updated second edition of a revered reader in Marxist criminology, editor David F. Greenberg brings together writings about crime that range from classic articles by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to a variety of contemporary essays. Taking an explicitly Marxist point of view, the articles deal with various aspects of criminology, including organized crime, delinquency, urban crime, criminal law, and criminal justice. To the original text, Greenberg has added pieces on race and crime, gender and crime, rape, arson for profit, and auto theft.With extensive prefatory material prepared by Greenberg, as well as editorial notes, and a glossary of Marxist terminology, Crime and Capitalism is an indispensable text for students and professionals in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, social history, and sociology. Author note: David F. Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of The Construction of Homosexuality.

David F. Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of The Construction of Homosexuality.

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