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ace: here's the problem.
you're right in that there is perhaps no correlation between crime and the not voting--but i would argue that there is one between actions that in a fascist context would all be criminalized, but in other context would be understood as political actions and the sense that there is no recourse to, participation in, or possibility of redress of grievances by way of the existing political order.
this is a very old and obvious way to interpreting crime and other forms of "social deviance" historically. if there's a problem with it, that problem comes in reversing the direction of an ex post facto interpretation and trying to use it to generate causal claims. but that you cannot make if a then b type arguments does not in any way invalidate the more general point--it simply demonstrates why you aren't likely to run into them in a criminology course, but would see them routinely in other types of courses that deal with questions of crime and its social consequences. criminology course have no monopoly on either the topic or approaches to it.
as for ustwo and his fascist line of thinking about this question, i'm finished interacting with it.
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