ulation and administration of positive law. Capitalist justice is then made concrete in the establishment of the legal order. Quinney puts it this way, Capitalist justice is by the capitalist class, for the capitalist class, and against the working class. ( Quinney, Page 3)Since the 1960's official and public attention has focused on rising crime and how it should be controlled. To prevent crime, law enforcement officers must be better organized and equipped, and more effective legislation must be passed. At this period a new terminology was being born, criminal justice.The criminal justice movement is thus understood as a state-initiated and state- supported effort to rationalize mechanisms of social control. The system developed is one in which can be modified periodically as problems created by capitalism arise. The state also makes sure the citizens participate in crime control by having crime watches in the communities and citizen patrols.The concept of justice serves the larger purpose of providing a standard by which to judge our concrete actions. Quinney poses the question, Is justice necessary in Marxist theory and practice? (Quinney, page 27) Marx is seen to have avoided the use of justice as terminology. The whole notion of justice was seen as a way of mystifying the actual operation of capitalism.The problem with the concept of justice is that it is fundamentally a juridical or legal concept. Thus, the concept of justice is restricted to rational standards by which laws, social institutions, and human actions are judged. In this society human life is to be understood in terms of productive forces and relations of society, and not with the state as an expression of the prevailing mode of production.When a system is oppressive the term unjust misses the larger design. The terminology of justice limits the understanding, and blinds the citizens of the capitalist society to the truth that oppression does exist in this structure....
