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Political economy from the perspective of criminalization
Waseem Iqbal
There has been a virtual fading of modern-day criminology as well as the criminal justice system. This was recently replaced with the criminology which delivered truism on the thoughts with respect to crime and its management which is through political economy. It was due to the impact of Pincer movement held in the mid-1970s the political economy was been excluded from the chapter of criminology. Therefore, it was only for debate and policies related to the criminal justice, crime mismanagement the topic of criminology was repressed back in the last decade.
The term political economics is presently contradictory and illustrates a viewpoint which is very different from the economics. It is a term which denotes the social interrelationship between the people, the government and the policies for the public. The political economists study how socialism, capitalism and communism works in collaboration with each other. The Journal of Political Economy written by Gary Becker and Isaac Ehrlich in the 1960s illustrates the application of classical economics to crime (Becker 1968; Ehrlich 1973). The things that are taught in economics is far different from that of the political economy. The Wealth of Nations is a comprehensive work with respect to the foundations of the society which was written by Adam Smith of the 18th century political economy. Thus, this economy was inseparable from the moral philosophy (Haakonsen 2006). Also, it is due to the disregard of political economy clarifications along with their modern significance and empirical assistance makes it vibrant that its due to the philosophy which wins over the goals and knowledge while practicing the theoretical criminology (Michael J. Lynch; 2013).
Marx used to view himself as a follower of political economy by associating it with the dialect of philosophy of Hegel and the socialism of St. Simonian. Marx referred this political economy as Marxism. Economics grew in the late 19th century focusing primarily on the apolitical and mathematical models for the purpose of decision making, motivation of the human and different forms of organizations which use to perform social works. Further, this social theory consisted of a political economy of crime; the social mindset of the crime; the psychology of the social reaction; a political economy of the social reaction and its outcomes; the nature of the deviant process. All these elements were a part of the book Policing the Crisis written by Stuart Hall (Hall et al. 1978).
This book illustrated about a specific robbery which occurred in Birmingham and the imprisonment of the culprits. Through this book the moral panic with respect to mugging and the responses of the police were being highlighted. Further, the book illustrated about the political, social and cultural history of the British warfare and administration during the second world war. This book also illustrated on the transformation with respect to the political economy with respect to the black people. It also highlighted the way the specific cultures were associated in robbery when it was committed. Therefore, the book ‘Policing the Crisis’ was able to convey the micro, macro and middle ranged evaluation of the crimes and the reaction to it by personifying the facets of political economy with respect to a fully social theory.
This analysis will help to evaluate the impact of political economy towards the criminology theory. There are key phases in the political economy which played a major role...