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Market, Crime and Community
Toward a Mid-Range Theory of Post-Industrial Violence
ELLIOTT CURRIE
University of California, Berkeley, USA
In this paper I argue that `market societies' — those in which the pursuit of private gain becomes the dominant organizing principle of social and economic life — are especially likely to breed high levels of violent crime. At least seven mechanisms contribute to this vulnerability: the progressive destruction of livelihood; the growth of extremes of inequality and material deprivation; the withdrawal of public services and supports; the erosion of informal networks of mutual support; the spread of a materialistic and neglectful culture; the deregulation of the technology of violence; and the weakening of social and political alternatives. The tendency of market society to breed violent crime helps explain high levels of life-threatening violence in the US, as well as in parts of the Third World and the former Soviet bloc. This has obvious, and troubling, implications for the future in a world hurtling toward global deregulation.
Key Words: homicide • inequality • livelihood • market society • violence
Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 1, No. 2,
147-172 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/1362480697001002001
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