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In this expanded and updated second edition of a reader in Marxist criminology, editor David F. Greenberg brings together writings about crime that range from classic articles by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to a variety of contemporary essays. Taking an explicitly Marxist point of view, the articles deal with various aspects of criminology, including organized crime, delinquency, urban crime, criminal law, and criminal justice. To the original text, Greenberg has added pieces on race and crime, gender and crime, rape, arson for profit, and auto theft. Includes a glossary of Marxist terminology.

Intro -- Contensts -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality -- Part I. Before Homosexuality -- 2 Homosexual Relations in Kinship-Structured Societies -- 3 Inequality and the State: Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations -- 4 Early Civilizations: Variations on Homosexual Themes -- 5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World -- 6 Feudalism -- Part II. The Construction of Modern Homosexuality -- 7 Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures -- 8 The Rise of Market Economies -- 9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality -- 10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality -- 11 Gay Liberation -- Epilogue: Under the Sign of Sociology -- References -- Index.

Data from a survey of residents of a Southern Ute Indian reservation in Colorado carried out by Abril (2007) are used to compare perceptions of crime seriousness held by members of an American Indian tribe with those of non-Indians living on the same reservation. There are few significant or substantial differences between the two groups. These findings bear on debates in criminology and the sociology of law regarding the extent to which the content of the criminal law reflects a broad consensus in society or entails the imposition of rules made by and for dominant groups on subordinate groups holding different cultural values and norms. Additional data are deployed to assess subcultural explanations of high levels of interpersonal violence on American Indian reservations.

Empirical and theoretical issues posed by Mark Cooney's (2003) analysis of long‐term trends in crimes of violence are discussed.

The article discusses methodological and interpretive issues raised by Beckett and Western's (2001) statistical analysis of US state imprisonment rates. It considers Downes' (2001) argument that market economies generate high crime rates and high levels of punitiveness and questions whether Europe's penal history will follow that of the United States.