Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Part 1: Marx and Engels on Crime and Punishment
1. Crime and Primitive Accumulation
2. The Demoralization of the English Working Class
3. Crime in Communist Society
4. The Usefulness of Crime
5. The Labeling of Crime
6. On Capital Punishment
Part 2: The Causes of Crime
1. Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood, and Working-Class Composition
2. Goths and Vandals: Crime in History
3. Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging: Common Rights and Class Relations in the Postbellum South
4. Organized Crime and Class Politics
5. Urban Crime and Capitalist Accumulation, 1950-1971
6. The Social Economy of Arson: Vandals, Gangsters, Bankers, and Officials in the Making of an Urban Problem
7. Wealth, Crime, and Capital Accumulation
8. Auto Theft and the Role of Big Business
9. The Production of Black Violence in Chicago
10. Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society
11. Rape, Sexual Inequality, and Levels of Violence
12. The Gendering of Crime in Marxist Theory
Part 3: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
1. The Dialectics of Crime Control
2. A Reinterpretation of Criminal Law Reform in Nineteenth-CenturyEngland
3. The Walnut Street Jail: A Penal Reform to Centralize the Powers of the State
4. Policing a Class Society: The Expansion of the Urban Police in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
5. The Political Economy of Policing
6. At Hard Labor: Penal Confinement and Production in Nineteenth-Century America
7. Convict Leasing: An Application of the Rusche-Kirchheimer Thesis to Penal Changes in Tennessee, 1830-1915
8. The Cooptation of Fixed Sentencing Reform
9. The Enforcement of Anti-Monopoly Legislation
10. The Standards of Living in Penal Institutions
Part 4: Crime and Revolution: Is Crime Progressive?
1. Crime, the Crisis of Capitalism, and Social Revolution
2. Gangs and Progress: The Contribution of Delinquency to Progressive Reform
Part 5: Praxis and Marxian Criminology
Glossary
Index