RT Article T1 Labor Market and Penal Sanction: Thoughts on the Sociology of Criminal Justice JF Social justice VO 40 IS 1/2 SP 252 OP 264 A1 Rusche, Georg 1900-1950 LA English YR 2013 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747155799 AB The article discusses and proposes basic ideas for research along the lines of social function of crime and criminal justice. Topics discussed include how economic theory and historical observation can clarify many questions in the field of criminology, the need for a penal sanction constituted in such a way that classes most criminally inclined will prefer to abstain from the forbidden acts and the need to clarify the economic categories that determine the fate of the lower social classes. K1 Criminal justice agencies K1 Criminal Justice System K1 Crime K1 Criminal Law K1 Functionalism (Social sciences) K1 Research