Marxism and Neo Marxism and Crime
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- Created on: 06-05-15 11:50
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- Marxism and Crime
- Criminogenic Capitalism
- Crime is inevitable, capitalism causes crime
- Exploited workers raise the crime levels
- Competition encourages greed and self interest
- Crime is a rational response to capiralism
- State and Law Making
- Chambliss- laws protect private property for capitalism
- Ruling class can prevent laws that threaten their interests
- Example? Laws which introduced tax on African workers to get trade in tea
- Ideological Functions
- Laws are passed to appear to benefit W/C
- Pearce- Laws made to benefit W/C will often benefit U/C too
- Crime appears to be W/C phenomena
- Creates a class divide
- Media portray criminals as disturbed individuals
- Neo Marxism
- Combine Marxism and labelling theory
- Taylor, Walton and JockYoung
- Crime is a meaningful action made by conscious actor
- Criminals are not puppets, striving to change society
- Full social theory of deviance
- Taylor- understand crime to help change society for the better
- 1 Wider origins of deviant act
- 2 Immediate origins of deviant act
- 3 The act itself
- 5 Wider origins of social reaction
- 6 Effects oflabelling
- 4 Immediate origins of social reaction
- Criminogenic Capitalism
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