<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 06/28/2002 12:36:22 PM Mountain Daylight Time, paul@prescod.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">This statement does not correspond with my experience or understanding
<BR>of the world. Police, judges and jailers exist in large part to handle
<BR>crimes of passion that have nothing to do with class conflict.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>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:
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<BR>Lynch, Michael (Rediscovering Criminology: "Lessons from the Marxist Tradition," in <U>Marxist Sociology: Surveys of Contemporary Theory and Research</U>, ed. Donald McQuarie and Patrick McGuire. New York: General Hall Press.
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<BR>Messerschmidt, James (1986) <U>Capitalism, Patriarchy and Crime</U> (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield.
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<BR>Simpson, Sally (1989) "Feminist Theory: Crime and Justice," <U>Criminology</U> 27: 605-632.
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<BR>Greenberg, David F. (ed.) <U>Crime and Capitalism </U> (Temple Univ Press; 1993)
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<BR>stannard
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