Mark Colvin and John Pauly (1983), 'A Critique of Criminology: Toward an Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory of Delinquency Production', American Journal of Sociology, 90, pp. 513-51.

We attempt in this paper to present a comprehensive theoretical approach to understanding the social production of serious patterned delinquent behavior, defined as repeated engagement of a juvenile in the FBI's Part One Index crimes (Elliot and Ageton 1980). We review past theoretical efforts in criminology in order to reinterpret and build on them in developing a structural-Marxist approach to delinquency. Our approach can be considered "structural-Marxist" insofar as its analytical starting point is the objective structure of social relations grounded in the process of material production under capitalism (Appelbaum 1979; Blackburn 197 2; Burris 1979; Gimenez 1982; Godelier 1972).