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    The document discusses the political economy of punishment theory proposed by Karl Marx and subsequent neo-Marxist writers. It outlines how Marx and thinkers like Rusche and Kirchheimer believed that punishment systems are shaped by the economic conditions and needs of the ruling class. They argued that prisons prepare inmates for work and provide cheap labor for industries. The document also examines Pashukanis' view that punishment maintains ruling class power and follows capitalist values. Douglas Hay emphasized the dual roles of criminal law in legitimizing ruling class power through both coercion and promoting its ideology.

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    The document discusses the political economy of punishment theory proposed by Karl Marx and subsequent neo-Marxist writers. It outlines how Marx and thinkers like Rusche and Kirchheimer believed that punishment systems are shaped by the economic conditions and needs of the ruling class. They argued that prisons prepare inmates for work and provide cheap labor for industries. The document also examines Pashukanis' view that punishment maintains ruling class power and follows capitalist values. Douglas Hay emphasized the dual roles of criminal law in legitimizing ruling class power through both coercion and promoting its ideology.

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    The document discusses the political economy of punishment theory proposed by Karl Marx and subsequent neo-Marxist writers. It outlines how Marx and thinkers like Rusche and Kirchheimer believed that punishment systems are shaped by the economic conditions and needs of the ruling class. They argued that prisons prepare inmates for work and provide cheap labor for industries. The document also examines Pashukanis' view that punishment maintains ruling class power and follows capitalist values. Douglas Hay emphasized the dual roles of criminal law in legitimizing ruling class power through both coercion and promoting its ideology.

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    The Political Economy of

    Punishment
    JAVED IQBAL KHOKHAR
    PHD-SCHOLAR (SOCIOLOGY), LLB
    D E P U T Y D I R E C T I N G S TA F F AT N AT I O N A L A C A D E M Y F O R P R I S O N S A D M I N I S T R AT I O N ( N A PA ) , M I N I S T R Y O F I N T E R I O R , G O V T. O F PA K I S TA N
    Who is Proponent?
     Karl Marx is proponent of this theory.

     Marx was a:
    o German Philosopher
    o Dialectician/Social Conflict

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Karl Marx
     Born in Trier, Prussia, on May 5, 1818

     Belongs to middle-class family

     Married to Jenny in 1843

     Died on March 14, 1883

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Karl Marx
     Doctoral degree from the University of Berlin in 1841

     Under supervision of Bruno Bauyer—young Hegelian

     Thesis Title “The Difference between the Democritean


    and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature”

    o Democritus and Epicurus were ancient Greek philosophers

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Neo-Marxist Writers
     George Rusche and Atto Kirchheimer
     Punishment and Social Structure (1975)

     Evgeny Pashukanis
     General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924)

     Douglas Hay

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    The Political Economy of Punishment
     Punishment as an economically conditioned
    state apparatus

     Plays an ideological and political role in ruling


    class domination.

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Rusche and Kirchheimer
     Interconnections between penal
    institutions and the economic
    requirements o f modes of production

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Rusche and Kirchheimer
     Penal institutions imbue prisoners with the
    disciplines and attitudes necessary for
    adaptation to the workplace
     Prison inmates are put to work as a kind of compulsory
    training for industry.

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Rusche and Kirchheimer
     Labor of convicted offenders provides a potentially
    exploitable re- source.

     Fine is the other fiscal consideration of twentieth


    century most frequently deployed as penal
    measure.

    "the epitome of rationalized capitalist penal law"


    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Pashukanis
     Role of punishment in political and
    ideological class struggles

     Maintenance of state-power or ruling-


    class hegemony
    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Pashukanis
     In capitalist societies, penal institutions
    o are organized around a series of bourgeois values
    o follow the logic of capitalist economic relations
    o ignore appropriate logic of "scientific penology" (by
    which he means a social defense and treatment
    model).
    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Standard Bourgeois Individual
    1) Free will

    2) Responsibility

    3) Hedonistic psychology

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Douglas Hay
     Dual role of criminal law as
    ideological legitimation as well
    as class coercion
    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore
    Douglas Hay
     Ruling class hegemony
    1) Strategic use of discretion in criminal justice
    2) Careful management of symbols and ceremony
    3) Ideological appeal of a system that generally abides
    by its own legal ideals

    Javed Iqbal Khokhar, PhD-Scholar (Sociology), LLB, Deputy Directing Staff at NAPA Lahore

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