1 Introduction 1
2 Historical Patterns of Crime in England 20
3 Crime Trends in the Neoliberal Age 48
4 Social Theory and Criminology: The Underlying Liberal Narrative 72
5 Twentieth-century CriminologicalTheory: From Aetiology to Controlology 95
6 Living with the Undead: The Failure of Liberal-leftTheory 131
7 The Return of the Dialectic 164
8 The Transcendental Materialist Subject 184
9 On the Stimulation and Pacification of Populations 214
10 Conclusion 245
References 257
Index 276