03175nam 2200553 450 991079252000332120230809222731.090-04-31956-510.1163/9789004319561(CKB)3710000001064295(MiAaPQ)EBC48191292017004128(nllekb)BRILL9789004319561(EXLCZ)99371000000106429520170324h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMarxism and criminology[e-book] a history of criminal selectivity /by Valeria Vegh WeisLeiden, The Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2017.©20171 online resource (368 pages) illustrations, tablesStudies in Critical Social Sciences,1573-4234 ;Volume 10490-04-31955-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material --Introduction --Original Criminal Selectivity --Disciplining Criminal Selectivity --Bulimic Criminal Selectivity --Final Reflections --Afterword /Jonathan Simon --References --Index.Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity , Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyze crime and punishment through the historical development of capitalism (15th Century to the present) in Europe and in the United States. The author puts forward the concepts of over-criminalization and under-criminalization to show that the criminal justice system has always been selective. Criminal injustice, the book argues, has been an inherent element of the founding and reproduction of a capitalist society. At a time when racial profiling, prosecutorial discretion, and mass incarceration continue to defy easy answers, Vegh Weis invites us to revisit Marx and Engels’ contributions to identify socio-economic and historic patterns of crime and punishment in order to foster transformative changes to criminal justice. The book includes a Foreword by Professor Roger Matthews of Kent University, and an Afterword written by Professor Jonathan Simon of the University of California, Berkeley.Studies in critical social sciences ;Volume 104.CriminologyEconomic aspectsCrimeSociological aspectsMarxian economicsCriminal justice, Administration ofDiscrimination in criminal justice administrationCriminologyEconomic aspects.CrimeSociological aspects.Marxian economics.Criminal justice, Administration of.Discrimination in criminal justice administration.364.01Vegh Weis Valeria1496062MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792520003321Marxism and criminology3720527UNINA