A Neo-Marxian Critique, Formulation and Test of Juvenile Dispositions as a Function of Social Class

Abstract

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Punishment and Social Structure Revisited: Unemployment and Imprisonment in the United States, 1948–1984

“…In addition, several scholars have tried to explain features of the contemporary criminal justice system in terms of types of capital. Carter and Clelland (1979) suggest that the greatest state control is exercised over the most marginal segment of the labor force, namely, the competitive-sector employees. Colvin argues that internal conflicts in prison and in imprisonment policies reflect "larger conflicts between opposing needs and interests of the monopoly and competitive sectors of capital" (1981, p. 34).…”

The Political Economy of Incarceration Trends in Late U.S. Capitalism: 1971-1977

“…Although previous research has demonstrated that imprisonment trends bear little or no relation to officially recorded crime (Jankovic, 1977;Nagel, 1977), a rigorous test of the connection between penal sanctions and labor supply requires that such a potential source of variation be accounted for. Although probably invalid as a measure of the &dquo;true&dquo; incidence of property,threatening behavior, officially-recorded property crimes represent a measure of the extent to which control agents and others perceive capitalist property relations to be threatened (see Carter and Clelland, 1979). For a similar reason, state-bystate differentials in crime control efforts and crime reporting must also be controlled.…”

Reassessing the critical metaphor: An optimistic revisionist view

“…The genre, if not the name, emerged in the late 1960s, influenced by conflict and phenomenology/labeling theories 1. Particularly influential pre-1980 exemplares include Beirne (1979), Carter and Clelland (1979), Chambliss (1964Chambliss ( , 1966Chambliss ( , 1969Chambliss ( , 1971Chambliss ( , 1975, Currie (1974), Garafolo (1978), Kennedy (1976), Krisberg (1975), Pepinsky (1976), Pfohl (1978), Platt (1975Platt ( , 1977, Quirmey (1970Quirmey ( , 1975Quirmey ( , 1977Quirmey ( , 1979, Schwendinger andSchwendinger (1975, 1976), Scull (1977), Spitzer (1977), Spitzer and Scull (1977), and T.R. Young (1978).…”