Marxist explanations of crime
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- Created on: 12-01-14 20:14
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- Crime and Deviance: Marxist
- CHAMBLISS + BONGER:
- 6 elements of crime:
- Law benefits the ruling class
- support ruling class interests
- Maintains ruling class power
- Controls the subject class
- False class conciousness
- Snider
- Capitalist state is reluctant to pass laws which regulate large capitalist concerns and might threaten their profitability
- support ruling class interests
- Ruling class impose values
- hegemony
- agents of socialisation
- Rational response to living in unfair capitalist society
- Money is major influence on everything
- David Gordon
- 'dog eat dog society'
- Competitive system
- Aggression
- frustration
- Law enforcement favours powerful
- police and judicial system are instruments of the ruling class
- Crimes of the powerful are ignored and tend to be less visible
- Acts of rebellion against system
- Working class deviant form an ideological resistance to dominant system
- Phil Cohen
- Skinheads
- Scratton
- 'cultures of resistance'
- Selective law enforcement hides unfair nature of soicety
- David Gordon
- Occasional prosecution of ruling class perpetuates the fiction that the law operates for the benefit for whole society, and ruling class crime is small
- Selecting members of subject class and punishing them as individuals = social failure
- Imprisonment legitimately neutralises opposition to system
- Defining criminals as 'animals and misfits' for justification
- Occasional prosecution of ruling class perpetuates the fiction that the law operates for the benefit for whole society, and ruling class crime is small
- David Gordon
- Law benefits the ruling class
- 6 elements of crime:
- CHAMBLISS + BONGER:
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