<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Communism</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite>In a message dated 06/28/2002 12:36:22 PM Mountain Daylight Time, paul@prescod.net writes:</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <blockquote type="cite" cite>This statement does not correspond with my experience or understanding of the world. Police, judges and jailers exist in large part to handle</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>crimes of passion that have nothing to do with class conflict.</blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> 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</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>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>).</div> <div>-- Yoshie * Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/></div> </body> </html>