Marx’s Heritage in the Recent Criminological Theory: From the Conflict to the Radical Criminology Cover Image

Marxovo naslijeđe u recentnoj kriminološkoj teoriji: od konfliktne ka radikalnoj kriminologiji
Marx’s Heritage in the Recent Criminological Theory: From the Conflict to the Radical Criminology

Author(s): Adnana Šabani
Subject(s): Marxism, Social Theory, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Penology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Udruženje za filozofiju i društveno-humanistička istraživanja “Eidos”
Keywords: The theory of conflict; the theory of radical criminology; class; criminality; power;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the importance and relevance of Marx’s thoughts in recent criminology through the connection of conflict and marxist (radical) criminology. Marx’s understanding of capitalism was emphasized as a system of contradictions of capital and labor, reducing all of society’s strengths on capital goods, protecting private property and gaining value in the form of profits. The cause of criminality is considered capitalism as the dominant socio-economic formation of the modern age. It follows that the society is conflicting in that sense and the theory of conflict with the theory of radical criminology is presented. The basic focus of the interest of radical criminology and the modern era is outlined in the sense of the contradictions of modern capitalism and its social products such as misery, risk, criminality, and the praxis of power in treatment of crime.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 87-96
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian