This. The “Criminal Class” is a bougie Victorian social construction meant to weaponize Calvinist moralism. It has no place in any modern understanding of the social landscape. There is no criminal class, there are groups of marginalized people whose existence is made criminal by the state. And most of them work for cash wages.
Beggars and sex workers are criminalized, so they are members of the criminal class
This. The “Criminal Class” is a bougie Victorian social construction meant to weaponize Calvinist moralism. It has no place in any modern understanding of the social landscape. There is no criminal class, there are groups of marginalized people whose existence is made criminal by the state. And most of them work for cash wages.