So why is our murder rate so much higher than other countries, and why do we love guns so much? There's plenty of violence in the media elsewhere. Doug <<<<<>>>>>
there was this bearded guy named marx who said, i kid you not, more than 15 years ago, that criminal law is not 'the domination of some independently existing general will' nor is 'crime the mere violation of right and law'...moreover, this guy had the termerity to assert that crime is the 'struggle of the isolated individual against the prevailing conditions' rather then 'result of pure arbitrariness' (quotes from _german ideology_)...
concept of crime is political, defined by the ruling class in ways that suit its interests, part of what is called criminality is class struggle, carried it out in more individualistic ways in the u.s. with its *liberal* political culture and less-organized working class...thus, criminal law is often a tool of repression...
of course, ruling class *criminality* has played important role in capitalist development... mh
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