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Chapter 12

The classic attempt to develop a Marxist-inspired political economy of crime is Bonger, W. (1916/1969), Criminality and Economic Conditions, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Two important analyses from the heyday of 1970s critical criminology are Taylor, I., Walton, P., and Young, J. (1973), The New Criminology, London: Routledge; and Hall, S., Critcher, C., Jefferson, T., Clarke, J., and Roberts, B. (1978), Policing the Crisis, London: Macmillan. For analyses of recent crime and criminal justice trends incorporating political economy see Currie, E. (1998b), Crime and Punishment in America, New York: Holt; Taylor, I. (1999), Crime in Context, Cambridge: Polity; Young, J. (1999), The Exclusive Society, London: Sage; and Garland, D. (2001), The Culture of Control, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Two important attempts to analyse the US crime drop are Karmen, A. (2000), New York Murder Mystery, New York: New York University Press; and Blumstein, A., and Wallman, J. (eds) (2000), The Crime Drop in America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. A stimulating analysis of recent British homicide trends is Dorling, D. (2004), 'Prime Suspect: Murder in Britain', in P. Hillyard, C. Pantazis, S. Tombs, and D. Gordon (eds), Beyond Criminology, London: Pluto. A useful review of the economic literature is Hale, C. (2005), 'Economic Marginalization and Social Exclusion', in C. Hale, K. Hayward, A. Wahidin, and E. Wincup (eds), Criminology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. A valuable collection of readings is Fielding, N., Clarke, A., and Witt, R. (eds) (2000), The Economic Dimensions of Crime, London: Palgrave. Zedner, L. (2006b), 'Opportunity Makes the Thief-Taker: the Influence of Economic Analysis on Crime Control', in T. Newburn and P. Rock (eds), The Politics of Crime Control, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming) is a cogent critique of the impact of neo-classical economic models. Cavadino, M., and Dignan, J. (2006), Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach, London: Sage is a major pioneering attempt at a comparative analysis of the political economy of penal systems.