From the late 1980s, the view of history, class and crime began to change. Social history was critiqued from three different directions. Which three were they?

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Studies of pre-capitalist or early modern societies challenged the idea that crime was solely a product of modernity and capitalism, cultural historians argued that crime and its control had varied social meanings, and historians of gender and family relations highlighted the role of masculinity in certain types of crimes. Marxist historians arguing that class was still dominant and cultural historians embracing consumerism as the new cause of crime were not criticisms of social history but rather alternative perspectives within the field.

From the Late 1980s, the View of History, Class and Crime