Marxism
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- Created on: 20-03-23 09:20
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- Marxism
- Claims
- Capitalism encourages us to be materialistic consumers.
- Making us want things we can't afford.
- We learn it's acceptable to harm others in process of Capitalism.
- Criminal Justice system only punishes the poor.
- Capitalism encourages us to be materialistic consumers.
- Components
- Dog eat dog society
- We should engage in self-interested and pursuit of profit is good.
- Learn that it's acceptable to harm others in process of Capitalism.
- Capitalism is criminogenic because:
- 1. It encourages individuals to pursue self-interest before anything else.
- 2. Encourages us to want things we don't need/can't afford.
- 3. Creates inequality and poverty.
- William Chambliss
- Inequality gives WC frustration and injustice.
- As a result, economic crime and violent street crime flourish.
- Economic crime "represents rational responses to the competitiveness and inequality of life in capitalist societies".
- For example:
- Drug dealers see themselves as innovative entrepeneurs.
- So internalised is the desire to be successful that breaking the law.
- Drug dealers see themselves as innovative entrepeneurs.
- Dog eat dog society
- Credibility
- Highlights the impact of selective law enforcement.
- Demonstrates how the law reflects differences in power between social classes.
- Also, how inequality in society can lead to criminal behaviour.
- Overstates amount of crime in working-class communities.
- Lacks scientific credibility.
- Never been scientifically tested.
- Deterministic
- Implies the ruling class want to criminalise the working class.
- Reductionist
- Ignores other non-class inequalities, such as gender and ethnicity.
- Analysis
- Jordan Belfort
- Became rich by lying to investors about penny stock.
- Sentences to 4 years.
- In federal prison.
- However, he only served 22 months in prison.
- He fell into bankruptcy later after losing his job.
- It was after this he became interested in stockbroking.
- Links to marxism.
- He realised he couldn't get money legally anymore so had to find another way to get it.
- Links to marxism.
- It was after this he became interested in stockbroking.
- Jordan Belfort
- Refuting Evidence
- Not all working class people commit crime.
- Not all capitalist societies have high crime rates.
- Countries like: Japan and Switzerland.
- Some wealthy are prosecuted.
- Refutes this claim.
- That the Criminal Justice System mainly concerns itself with punishing the poor.
- Not the wealthy.
- That the Criminal Justice System mainly concerns itself with punishing the poor.
- Refutes this claim.
- Supporting Evidence
- Lauren Snider
- The Ruling Class pass laws that don't criminalise themselves.
- The State don't like passing laws.
- That would control big companies.
- For example- little law to protect environment or worker's health and safety.
- That would control big companies.
- Many prosecutions for WCC.
- Suggests greed for desire and wealth.
- Lauren Snider
- Claims
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