Dear comrades,
School has me reading criminal law and included economist aspect: Marxist theory on punishment. Anyway they keep quoting this Otto kirchheimer as a marxist writer, but it seems that guy worked for the predecessor of the CIA… So obviously I’m very skeptical about it.
Anyone of you have any good sources on Marxist take on criminal law/punishment
Appreciate it comrade
Its a British perspective, key text in studying classical sociology from the UK pov.
He gives an idea of what a marxist judicial system would look like by reconstructing a legal system based on Marx’s critiques, then gives a balanced perspective from a positive spin by this guy;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._P._Thompson
A reactionary trot teardown (USSR executed this guy because he said working class law was impossible)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Pashukanis
and a post-modern take (which is basically always required in the UK, eurocentrism moment) which manages to say nothing from Foucault
The Law of the Soviet State and Russian Justice for the Soviet legal system and a chapter of Peoples’ Democracies about the Mindszenty trial and legal systems in other Warsaw Pact countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_criminology
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1007/BF01307806 – Lynch, M. J., Groves, W. B., & Lizotte, A. (1994). The rate of surplus value and crime. A theoretical and empirical examination of Marxian economic theory and criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change, 21(1), 15–48. – The rate of exploitation predicts crime.
Labor surplus and punishment: A review and assessment of theory and evidence by TG Chiricos, MA Delone - Social Problems, 1992
Lynch, Michael J., “The Extraction of Surplus Value, Crime and Punishment: A Preliminary Examination” Contemporary Crises, 1988 (12), 329-344
Lynch, Michael J., Quantitative Analysis and Marxist Criminology," Crime and Social Justice, 1987 (29), 110-127.
Lynch, Michael J. and W. Byron Groves, A Primer in Radical Criminology, second edition (New York: Harrow and Heston, 1989).
Lynch, Michael J., E. Britt Patterson and J. Santiago Nunez, The Rate of Surplus Value, the Organic Composition of Capital, the Marxian Rate of Profit and Crime in the U.S., 1960-1988. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Denver, Colorado, 1990
