{"product_id":"9781608469307","title":"Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity: A History of Criminal Selectivity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years the very idea of criminal \u003ci\u003ejustice \u003c\/i\u003e has come under increasing scrutiny by academics, activists, and even casual observers. 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 \u003ci\u003einjustices\u003c\/i\u003e in the way our society executes its ‘tough on crime’ ethos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMarxism and Criminology\u003c\/i\u003e , 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. To that end, Weis sets out to rehabilitate the contributions and methodology of Karl Marx and \u003ci\u003eFriedrich\u003c\/i\u003e Engels to analyze crime and punishment through the historical development of capitalism in Europe and in the United States. She invites us to revisit their contributions to identify socio-economic and historic patterns of crime and punishment in order to foster transformative changes to our approach to criminal justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049877815536,"sku":"9781608469307","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608469307_p0.jpg?v=1763839216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608469307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}