Crime

Its Causes & Consequences

by John Keracher

Publication date: January 1998
Paperback: $4.00

This pamphlet is but a brief outline dealing with the phenomenon of crime, and of the various explanations as to causes and remedies offered by the different 'schools' of criminology. Our point of view is that of Marxism, which contends that the economic factor is the main underlying cause and that, therefore, criminality is the direct and indirect result of the prevailing social system, capitalism, with its extreme wealth for a small section of the population and pressing poverty for such large numbers.