Critical Criminologies
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 18-04-15 08:52
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- Critical Criminologies
- The traditional Marxist approach
- Law creation and dominant hegemony
- In capitalisit societies the ruling class impose their values, those that are beneficial to themselves
- They do this through a number of agencies, education religion and the mass media
- Law enforcement
- The police and the judicial system works in favor of the ruling class and so mostly arrest the working class
- Actual laws are fair but the rich are let off and the poor are targetted
- Crime and control
- Crime is used to divert the majority if the population away from an understanding of the true causes of their situation through the use of agencies
- Crime supports the ideology of capitalism as it diverts attention away from the exploitative nature of capitalism
- Individual motivation
- Bonger says that capitalism is based on competition, selfishness and greed and this formed peoples attitudes to life - crime is a normal outcome of this way of thinking
- Law creation and dominant hegemony
- New criminology
- New criminologies like Marxism and interactionists look at the causes of crime like deprivation and upbringing
- Is unbiased and uses new investigation methods such as covert or overt participant observation
- Hall et al, was the first to look at the caues of muggings in britain, he looked at media influence, deprivation, injustice and moral panics that disadvantaged ethnic groups
- Marxist subculture theory
- Capitalism maintains control over the majority of the population in two ways
- Ideological dominance through the media
- Economic pressures - people want to keep their jobs and pay thier mortgages
- Brake
- Resistance is shown through working-class youth sub-cultures
- The clothes theey wearand the language they use show their disdain of capitalism and their awareness of their position in it
- He calls this resistance "magical". This means that subcultures give the illusion of solving their problems but don't
- Capitalism maintains control over the majority of the population in two ways
- The traditional Marxist approach
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