Market, Crime and Community: Toward a Mid-Range Theory of Post-Industrial Violence

Currie, Elliott

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“…These new and experimental statistics found that 'adults aged 16 and over experienced an estimated 5.8 million fraud and computer misuse incidents in the 12 months prior to interview; 3.8 million of these were fraud incidents and 2 million were computer misuse incidents' (Office for National Statistics 2016a, p.7). 14 While this research has addressed property crime in England and Wakes, Currie (1997) sought to explain how the proliferation of free market values in America has contributed to violent crime. 15 We would like to acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (as award number ES/K006398/1) in enabling this research to have been conducted.…”

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Thatcherism, Crime and the Legacy of the Social and Economic ‘Storms’ of the 1980s

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Jennings

Gray

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Howard J Crime Justice

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Using insights from the classical sociology of deviance and social structure (notably Durkheim and Merton) we explore the enduring impact of the social and economic changes which started in the UK in the early 1980s. In the two subsequent decades the UK went through a period of radical economic restructuring, leading to lasting social change. We seek to gauge the effect of these combined social and economic processes, which we label social and economic ‘storms’, at the national level. In so doing we assess, and ultimately defend, the heuristic utility of this conceptualisation, considering the extent to which such social and economic storms (individually and collectively) weakened bonds between individuals, within and between families, and across communities. We use proxy measures of economic and social changes in combination with recorded crime statistics to explore the degree to which such processes might be associated with victimisation rates. We find that crime was related to these macro‐level ‘storms’, although ultimately they were driven by economic variables. Our analyses show how political decision making can shape long‐term trends in crime rates.

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“…While this research has addressed property crime in England and Wakes, Currie () sought to explain how the proliferation of free market values in America has contributed to violent crime.…”

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Gray

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Howard J Crime Justice

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“…In addition to identifying a potential cause of homicide -foreign direct investment -this dissertation also addresses ways to decrease the number of homicides occurring across nations. Sociologists have suggested that a strong civil society is fundamental in addressing moral issues such as poverty, inequality, and social integration -issues that are unintended consequences of inward FDI (Wolfe 1989;Boli and Thomas 1997;Currie 1997;Shandra et al 2004;Shandra 2007;Jorgenson 2009;Wright and Rogers 2011). One indicator of a strong civil society is the degree to which international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are present in a nation.…”

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“…Modern cross national studies of homicide are numerous (e.g. Avison and Loring 1986;Krahn et al 1986;Messner 1989;Jacobs and Richardson 1995;Messner and Rosenfeld 1997;Neapolitan 1997;Neapolitan 1998 LaFree and Kick 1986), deprivation and economic stress theory (Messner 1980;Currie 1997;Pridemore 2008), and a number of other cultural/structural perspectives (Groves et al 1985;Braithwaite 1989;Messner and Rosenfeld 1994;. While each of the aforementioned represents a distinct theoretical perspective, studies often analyze the correlates of more than one (Neapolitan 1997;Cole and Gramajo 2009).…”

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“…Following the Marxist tradition, many scholars -Marxist and non-Marxist -view relative deprivation and inequality as a consequence of a free market, capitalist system that enriches few while impoverishing many (Bonger 1916;Chambliss 1975;Quinney 1980;Greenberg 1993;Currie 1997). Both have been used to explain cross-national variation in crime rates.…”

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Abolition: A New Paradigm for Reform

Bell¹

2020

Law Soc. Inq.

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The catastrophic failure of the prison system in the United States has prompted a shift in criminal punishment system rhetoric and policy toward reform. Numerous programs and initiatives facilitate reentry for the hundreds of thousands of individuals coming out of prison every year, but these and other reforms remain problematic. They do little to improve the social and material conditions of those attempting to reintegrate. By failing to question the social, historical, political, and economic conditions of criminal system problems, they reproduce the oppressive social conditions that they are intended to address. This article diagnoses several major issues with conventional reform efforts in rehabilitation and reentry scholarship and praxis and argues that what is needed is not further attempts to improve these reforms but, rather, an approach that considers these problems through an abolitionist lens. An abolitionist frame, I suggest, is particularly useful in articulating suggestions for change. I apply an abolitionist analysis to an examination of reentry, illustrating how abolitionism helps to diagnose problematic reentry reforms and how an abolitionist approach to reentry can address these issues in a more effective, profound, and enduring way.

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Market, Crime and Community: Toward a Mid-Range Theory of Post-Industrial Violence

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Thatcherism, Crime and the Legacy of the Social and Economic ‘Storms’ of the 1980s

Thatcherism, Crime and the Legacy of the Social and Economic ‘Storms’ of the 1980s

Variations in homicide

Abolition: A New Paradigm for Reform

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