Primary text:

Karl Marx, Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood (1842)

• in Karl Marx-Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 1 (Karl Marx: 1835-1843) (New York: International Publishers, 1975), pp. 224-263.

• on-line at https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm

Secondary text:

Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 61-62 and 139-196.

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), pp. 257-292.

Additional Resources:

Bernard E. Harcourt, “Course Context,” in Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 265-300.

Pierre Lascoumes and Hartwig Zander, Marx: du “vol de bois” à la critique du droit, Paris: PUF, 1984

Linebaugh, Peter, “Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood, and Working Class Composition: A Contribution to the Current Debate,” Crime and Social Justice, vol. 6 (1976)

Edward P. Thompson, “Modes de domination et révolution en Angleterre,” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, vol. 2 (2-3), 1976

Mikhaïl Xifaras, “Marx, justice et jurisprudence une lecture des « vols de bois »,” Revue Française d’Histoire des Idées Politiques, 2002/1 N° 15, pp. 63-112. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfhip.015.0063.