NCJ Number
174524
Journal
Theoretical Criminology Volume: 1 Issue: 4 Dated: November 1997 Pages: 453-478
Date Published
1997
Length
26 pages
Annotation
This article claims, and attempts to illustrate how, capital's historical process produces durable forms of violent criminality
Abstract
Phases of capital's historical process constitute specific cultures at the emotional level as "visceral being." As the productivist era recedes, the globalizing neo-capitalist marketplace, based on circulation, consumption and social administration, is currently establishing itself as the principal form of economic life. These activities demand eviscerated and domesticated forms of life. Visceral cultures find themselves redundant and individuals and micro-communities committed to that way of life are finding little alternative but the field of criminal practice. Mutating forms of violent criminality are the product of historical material processes. They are susceptible to human intervention only if politics moves beyond its current role of managing market forces to one of direct engagement with the central systems of capitalist value and logic that drive these processes forward. Notes, references