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Crime, Justice, and Community in Socialist Cuba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

James P. Brady
James P. Brady*
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Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts
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Few of capitalism's brute facts so mock its proclaimed “social progress” as the persistence of crime and corruption despite technological advance and improved material conditions. Few of socialism's promises are so attractive as the ideals of a just state and a secure egalitarian community. Yet, though radical scholars in the West have developed a systematic critique of the bourgeois state, its contradictory legal system and criminogenic economy, there has been little effort toward an understanding of how crime and justice might be transformed under socialism. In part this reticence is a reflection of the anti-communism and national chauvinism which is so embedded in bourgeois education and social science; but it is perhaps also a consequence of earlier disappointment with the Soviet revolution and its society of “new class” privilege and bureaucratic rule.

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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 20 , Issue 1-2 , 1982 , pp. 5 - 31
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Copyright © 1982 International Society for Criminology

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Footnotes

My thanks especially to Comrades Colin Sumner of Cambridge, University and John Baumann of the University of Massachusetts at Boston for their patient criticisms, insightful suggestions, and steady friendship.

This article is based in part on a paper delivered at the Cambridge Criminology Conference, Cambridge University, Ensland, July, 1979.

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