ABSTRACT

Hopkins Burke (2008) observes that neo-Marxist critical criminology accounts demand significant prominence in this hybrid left realist explanation for significantly young people – and indeed all of us – were in the nineteenth century and certainly today subject to the requirements and demands of the economy. This historical version of the left realist perspective briefly explained here provides a variant on the carceral – or surveillance – society thesis we will encounter in the next and final part of this book by acknowledging our own contribution to the pervasive disciplinary-control-matrix that has encroached upon all our lives.