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The Contribution And Limitations of Anglo-American Criminology to Understanding Crime in Central-Eastern Europe 1

The Contribution And Limitations of Anglo-American Criminology to Understanding Crime in... 50 B. Hebenton and J. Spencer The Contribution And Limitations of Anglo-American Criminology to Understanding Crime in Central-Eastern Europe 1. Every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change 1. INTRODUCTION . " ' . ' ' ,r The theoretical and intellectual development of criminology, and sociological theories of crime, in East Central European countries stagnated during the years of soviet domination from 1945 to 1989. This lack of development was, primarily, due to the dominance of Mar- xist-Leninism which considered crime to be a feature of capitalist rather than socialist so- cieties, (this has become known as the Theory of Relics (Bienkowska 1991)). The development of a truly communist society, it was argued, would lead to crime being eradi- cated, because communism abolishes the root cause of crime which is the unequal distribu- tion of wealth. The Theory of Relics, developed during the 1930s, proved to be an untenable explanation, even for Marxist-Leninism, by the 1960s when crime continued to be a feature of the social landscape. There is, from this time, evidence of a developing criminology in some East Cen- tral European countries which understood crime as having a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Brill

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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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50 B. Hebenton and J. Spencer The Contribution And Limitations of Anglo-American Criminology to Understanding Crime in Central-Eastern Europe 1. Every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change 1. INTRODUCTION . " ' . ' ' ,r The theoretical and intellectual development of criminology, and sociological theories of crime, in East Central European countries stagnated during the years of soviet domination from 1945 to 1989. This lack of development was, primarily, due to the dominance of Mar- xist-Leninism which considered crime to be a feature of capitalist rather than socialist so- cieties, (this has become known as the Theory of Relics (Bienkowska 1991)). The development of a truly communist society, it was argued, would lead to crime being eradi- cated, because communism abolishes the root cause of crime which is the unequal distribu- tion of wealth. The Theory of Relics, developed during the 1930s, proved to be an untenable explanation, even for Marxist-Leninism, by the 1960s when crime continued to be a feature of the social landscape. There is, from this time, evidence of a developing criminology in some East Cen- tral European countries which understood crime as having a

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Published: Jan 1, 1994

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