What is Marxist criminology? How (if at all) does it differ from radical criminology? From critical criminology?

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Marxist criminology is a perspective on crime and crime causation that is based on the writings of Karl Marx. Radical criminology is based on Marx as well as other 19th century social utopian thinkers, such as Hegel, Bonger, and Weber. It also developed out of the rise of conflict theory in the social sciences and the radicalization of American academia in the 1960s and 1970s. Radical criminology holds that the causes of crime are rooted in social conditions empowering the wealthy and politically well-organized, but disenfranchising the less fortunate. Critical criminology specifically focuses on crime as the natural product of a capitalist system.

Some theorists who distinguish between radical and critical criminology, suggest that critical criminology is a way of critiquing current social and economic arrangements and relationships that lead to crime, while radical criminology constitutes a proactive call for radical change in the social, political, and economic systems that are responsible for fostering criminality.