Crime and Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Criminology Book

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Marx and Engels on Crime and Punishment	37
1	Crime and Primitive Accumulation	45
2	The Demoralization of the English Working Class	48
3	Crime in Communist Society	51
4	The Usefulness of Crime	52
5	The Labeling of Crime	54
6	On Capital Punishment	55
Pt. 2	The Causes of Crime	57
1	Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood, and Working-Class Composition	100
2	Goths and Vandals: Crime in History	122
3	Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging: Common Rights and Class Relations in the Postbellum South	142
4	Organized Crime and Class Politics	169
5	Urban Crime and Capitalist Accumulation, 1950-1971	194
6	The Social Economy of Arson: Vandals, Gangsters, Bankers, and Officials in the Making of an Urban Problem	211
7	Wealth, Crime, and Capital Accumulation	258
8	Auto Theft and the Role of Big Business	265
9	The Production of Black Violence in Chicago	279
10	Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society	334
11	Rape, Sexual Inequality, and Levels of Violence	357
12	The Gendering of Crime in Marxist Theory	405
Pt. 3	Criminal Law and Criminal Justice	443
1	The Dialectics of Crime Control	463
2	A Reinterpretation of Criminal Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century England	509
3	The Walnut Street Jail: A Penal Reform to Centralize the Powers of the State	533
4	Policing a Class Society: The Expansion of the Urban Police in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	546
5	The Political Economy of Policing	568
6	At Hard Labor: Penal Confinement and Production in Nineteenth-Century America	595
7	Convict Leasing: An Application of the Rusche-Kirchheimer Thesis to Penal Changes in Tennessee, 1830-1915	612
8	The Cooptation of Fixed Sentencing Reform	621
9	The Enforcement of Anti-Monopoly Legislation	641
10	The Standards of Living in Penal Institutions	649
Pt. 4	Crime and Revolution: Is Crime Progressive?	665
1	Crime, the Crisis of Capitalism, and Social Revolution	674
2	Gangs and Progress: The Contribution of Delinquency to Progressive Reform	689
Pt. 5	Praxis and Marxian Criminology	737
	Glossary	751
	Index	757