Text Box: Text Box: only on the intersection of class, gender, and race. I believe that the greatest strength of critical scholarship is in the dissent that it breeds through diversity. Any rigid dogma is itself stifling and ultimately oppressive, even when its well-intentioned and politically correct. Anyway, I like to know that when I strike up a conversation with three critical criminologists in the book exhibits at professional meetings, I’ll hear seven different opinions. Still, the one feature that must always distinguish mainstream from critical scholarship is our willingness to move beyond the simple “objective” documentation of the existence of inequality to risk the value judgments needed to call it oppression and to denounce it. Critical scholars must always risk protesting every form of oppression. We should remember the timeless words of socialist Eugene V. Debs: “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Debs understood and condemned oppression in its multiple forms. Critical criminologists must never do less. The author can be reached at Department of Criminology, Sociology, Social Work, and Geography, P. O. Box 2410, Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas, 72467-Text Box: Rawlinson, P. (1998) ‘Mafia, Media and Myth: Representations of Russian Organised Crime’, The Howard Journal, 37(4) pp.346-58. Rogovin, C.H. & Martens F.T. (1997) ‘The Evil That Men Do,’ in Ryan P.J. & Rush, G.E., Understanding Organized Crime in Global Perspective, Thousand Oaks, Sage, pp.26-36. Ruggiero, V. (1998) ‘Transnational Criminal Activities: The Provision of Services in the Dirty Economies’, International Journal of Risk, Security and Crime Prevention, 3(2) pp.121-9. Sheptycki, J. (1998) ‘The Global Cops Cometh’, British Journal of Sociology, March. Stelfox, P. (1998) ‘Policing Lower Levels of Organised Crime in England and Wales,’ The Howard Journal, 37(4), November, pp. 393-406. Stelfox, P. (1999) ‘Transnational Organised Crime: A selective police perspective’, Paper presented to the second meeting of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Seminar Series on Policy Responses to Transnational Organised Crime, University of Leicester, 15th December 1999. Taylor, I. (1999) Crime in Context: a critical criminology of market societies, Cambridge, Polity Press. Tilly, C. (1985) ‘War Making and State Making as Organized Crime,’ in Evans, P. et al, (eds.) Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge University Press, pp. 161-91. Voronin, Y. A. (1996) ‘The Emerging Criminal State: Economic and Political Aspects of Organised Crime in Russia’, Transnational Organised Crime, 2(2-3) pp.53-62. Text Box: 2410. E-mail: rwright@shoshoni.astate.edu REFERENCES Barak, Gregg, Jeanne Flavin, and Paul Leighton. 2001. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: Social Realities of Justice in America. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury. Messerschmidt, James W. 1997. Crime as Structured Action: Gender, Race, Class, and Crime in the Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Schwartz, Martin D. and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. 1996. Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection. New York: Garland. Text Box: Williams, P. (Ed.) (1997) Russian Organised Crime: The New Threat. London: Frank Cass. Woodiwiss, M. (1993) ‘Crime’s Global Reach,’ in F. Pearce & Woodiwiss (eds.) Global Crime Connections: dynamics and control, Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp1-31.