Crime and political economy

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Crime and political economy

edited by Ian Taylor

(The international library of criminology, criminal justice and penology)

Ashgate : Dartmouth, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This collection of essays looks at crime and political economy through various different aspects such as the Marxist tradition; white collar and professional crime; organized crime in the Fordist period; and crime and political economy within and across "post-Fordist" societies.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The Marxist tradition: Marx - A sociological analysis of the law of vagrancy, William J. Chambliss
  • Karl Marx, "The theft of wood" , and "Working class composition" - a contribution to the current debate, Peter Linebaugh
  • Willem Bonger - Willem Adriaan Bonger's "Criminality and economic conditions" - a critical appraisal, Barry Mike
  • Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer - Labour market and penal sanction - thoughts on the sociology of criminal justice, Georg Rusche
  • Ideology, crime creation and crime control in capitalist society - Property, authority and the Criminal law, Douglas Hay
  • The rationalization of crime control in capitalist society, Steven Spitzer. Part 2 Twentieth century empirical political economy of crime and punishment: Unemployment and crime rates in the post-World War II United States - a theoretical and empirical analysis, David Cantor, Kenneth C. Land. Part 3 Neo-classical economic and rational choice approaches to crime: Crime and punishment - an economic approach, Gary S. Becker
  • Participation in illegitimate activities - a theoretical and empirical investigation, Isaac Ehrlich. Part 4 White collar and professional crime - Sutherland and beyond: Crime corporation and the American social order, Frank Pearce
  • The other price of Britain's oil - regulating safety on offshore oil installations in the British sector of the North Sea, W.G. Carson
  • Equal before the law? Mike Levi. Part 5 Organised crime in the Fordist period: The Mafioso - from man of honour to entrepreneur, Pino Arlacchi
  • Changes in the organization of thieving, Mary McIntosh. Part 6 Crime and political economy within and across 'post-Fordist' societies: Los Angeles - civil liberties between the Hammer and Rocks, Mike Davis, Sue Ruddick
  • Turbo-charged capitalism and its consequences, Edward Luttwak
  • Speculators - culture, economy and the legitimation of deviance, Christopher Stanley. Part 6 Globalisation of economy and globalisation of crime: Organized crime markets in a turbulent Europe, Petrus C. van Duyne
  • Structural sources of international crime - policy lessons from the BCCI affair, Nikos Passas
  • The international drug trade and money-laundering - border controls and other issues, Ian Taylor.

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