Runaway Growth: Explaining the Crime-Control Growth-Complex

• In Event: Theoretical Perspectives in Critical Criminology

Abstract

Only critical criminology has taken seriously the important task of explaining crime-control behavior as opposed to criminal behavior. This paper explains the expansion of the crime-control industry using the notion of "growth-complex." A variety of theoretical traditions are called upon, including classic Marxism, critical political science, and a host of concepts contained in the late-modernity literature.

Authors

• Pete Kraska, Eastern Kentucky University

• Shannon Williams, Eastern Kentucky University