NCJ Number
122250
Journal
Sociological Inquiry Volume: 58 Issue: 4 Dated: (Fall 1988) Pages: 378-392
Date Published
1988
Length
15 pages
Annotation
Contemporary socialist criminologists concentrate their analysis of crime on production relations, ignoring the co-determination of reproduction and thus the role gender plays in crime by men and women.
Abstract
The author argues that this omission has occurred by reason of the theoretical work of Marx and Engels, as well as other socialist "criminologists" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The importance of the paper lies in its demonstration that the questions raised by these early socialist theoreticians are inadequate for developing a comprehensive theory of crime. (Author abstract)