Communism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>In a message dated 06/28/2002 12:36:22 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
>paul at prescod.net writes:
>
>>This statement does not correspond with my experience or understanding
>>of the world. Police, judges and jailers exist in large part to handle
>>crimes of passion that have nothing to do with class conflict.
>
>The original statement is a bit simplistic, but that doesn't mean 
>there is not a socioeconomic context to crime, including crimes of 
>passion.  See the following:
>
>Lynch, Michael (Rediscovering Criminology: "Lessons from the Marxist 
>Tradition," in Marxist Sociology: Surveys of Contemporary Theory and 
>Research, ed. Donald McQuarie and Patrick McGuire. New York: General 
>Hall Press.
>
>Messerschmidt, James (1986) Capitalism, Patriarchy and Crime 
>(Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield.
>
>Simpson, Sally (1989) "Feminist Theory: Crime and Justice," 
>Criminology 27: 605-632.
>
>Greenberg, David F. (ed.)  Crime and Capitalism  (Temple Univ Press; 1993)
>
>stannard

Also, check out Jeffrey Reiman, _Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get 
Prison, The: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice_, Allyn & Bacon, 
2001, 
<http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0205305571,00.html> 
(see, also, the book's companion website: 
<http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/reiman.htm>).
-- 
Yoshie

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