Marxism And Criminology - A History of Criminal Selectivity Vegh Weis Valeria Paperback
Marxism And Criminology - A History of Criminal Selectivity Vegh Weis Valeria Paperback Winner of the 2019 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book AwardIn recent years the very idea of…
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Marxism And Criminology - A History of Criminal Selectivity Vegh Weis Valeria Paperback
Winner of the 2019 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book AwardIn recent years the very idea of criminal justice has come under increasing scrutiny by academics, activists, and even casual observers. To that end, Weis sets out to rehabilitate the From the rash of extra-judicial killings by police and other officers of the law, to the manifest inequalities of the system of mass incarceration, hardly a week goes by without some new headline pointing to injustices in the way our society executes its 'tough on crime' ethos.In Marxism and Criminology, Valeria Vegh Weis argues that far from being mere excesses, things like racial profiling, prosecutorial discretion, and other expressions of what the author terms over-criminalization have been constitutive features of capitalist society from its beginning.