Karl Marx offered the first explanation of how capitalism generates crime.

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While Karl Marx extensively analyzed the socio-economic impacts of capitalism and how it could lead to conditions fostering crime, he was not the first to offer explanations on how economic systems could generate crime. Earlier philosophers and social theorists, including those from the Enlightenment period, had already explored the relationship between society's structure, including its economic systems, and crime.

Karl Marx Offered the First Explanation of How Capitalism Generates