ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that hegemonic knowledge produced by certain disciplines, especially in the course of their development, have historically provided auxiliary services to the forces of oppression and domination. It highlights how knowledge produced by establishment criminology has also aided the courses of social control and repression. Thus, there is a crucial need to confront the sociology of criminalization and criminal victimization at an epistemic level. The chapter engages with the inelastic conceptions of establishment criminology from this spirit. It discusses "political economy as a criminogenic force" and places preventable market-driven social harms at the epicentre of criminological inquiry. The concept of Market Criminology is used to broaden the perimeter of the argument by conceptualizing the avoidable harms of the different mutations of market rationality as criminal. American psychiatrists have used the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, at least since 1952, to create or pathologize behaviours that often deviate from the norm as mental illnesses.
