Lower the Crime Rate
Crime is born out of poverty and the miseries of capitalism. An index of oppression can’t be ignored by socialists.
Distress due to poverty gives the worker only the choice of starving slowly, killing himself quickly, or taking what he needs where he finds it — in plain English, stealing. And it is not surprising that the majority prefer to steal rather than starve to death or commit suicide.
Crime is born out of poverty and the miseries of capitalism. An index of oppression can’t be ignored by socialists.
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The story of Shali Tilson, a 22-year-old who died from dehydration at a jail in Georgia.
The prison reforms on the table are unlikely to make even a dent in the forces that keep millions behind bars.
The United States managed its violence on the cheap — through police and prisons instead of social welfare.
Forget the parodies — West Side Story was an epic musical about gang violence that was as hard-hitting as it was stunning.
There’s a reason why urban housing developments and suburban subdivisions can seem threatening and unwelcoming to outsiders: they’re planned that way, in order to “design out crime.”
Britain is rightly known for its multicultural popular music — but these musical styles have frequently emerged in the face of legal attempts to suppress them.
Criminal police officers ran law enforcement in 1990s Los Angeles — and they may have a story to tell.
In 1983, journalists helped conjure a nationwide sex panic.
The battle against the Sicilian Mafia wasn’t waged by cops and judges — it was waged by communists and labor militants.
Across the country and across industries, employers steal billions from workers each year. Minimum wage violation — the act of paying workers below the legal limit — is just one form of wage theft, but it results in at least $15 billion in lost wages annually. In 2015, minimum wage violations cost workers more than all robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts combined.
In Colombia and around the world, right-wing paramilitaries and traffickers have adopted a populist feint to win over the communities they terrorize.
In 1993, New York had its first black mayor — and Rudy Giuliani stirred up a police riot at City Hall.
We’re running short on funds. Jacobin troll Donald Hughes wants to help.