Marxist and Critical Criminologies
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- Marxist and Critical Criminologies
- The traditional Marxist approach
- The basis of the criminal law
- All laws benefit the ruling class
- Criminal law reflects their interest
- Criminal law reflects their interest
- Protects the rich and powerful
- Laureen Snider
- In capitalist societies, laws that threaten the big corporations by undermining their profits are rarely passed
- All laws benefit the ruling class
- Law and ruling class ideology
- Ruling class impose their values on the mass of the population
- Evaluation
- Comparison with functionalism
- Avoids a number of weaknesses of the functionalist approach
- Does not assume that laws benefit all members of society
- The criminal justice system can be manipulated by the powerful and can reflect their economic interests
- Functionalists are not clear on what an ideal society would look like
- Avoids a number of weaknesses of the functionalist approach
- Comparison with interactionism
- Takes into account labelling
- Has more developed model of social structure
- Strengths
- It looks at the causes of crime, criminalisation and social structure and social action/agency
- Well-rounded theory
- It looks at the causes of crime, criminalisation and social structure and social action/agency
- Weaknesses
- Reductive
- Says little about the process of labelling
- Comparison with functionalism
- Bonger (1916)
- Law enforcement and harm
- Law can be beneficial to everyone should it be applied fairly
- Biased in favour of the ruling class
- Laureen Snider
- Corporate crime does far more economic and physical damage than 'street crime'
- White collar crimes are often not prosecuted because many are hard to detect
- The causes of offending
- Chambliss
- Capitalism is based on competition, selfishness and greed
- Crime is a natural outcome of these values
- Capitalism is based on competition, selfishness and greed
- Chambliss
- Crime and control
- Crime diverts attention away from the exploitative nature of capitalism
- The basis of the criminal law
- Neo-Marxist and Critical crimonolgy
- Neo-Marxist subcultural theory
- Evaluation
- Stan Cohen
- Writers were biased in their analysis
- Fixed evidence to prove their hypithesis
- Writers were biased in their analysis
- Blackman
- Emphasis on working class subcultures ignore variance of subcultures based on other factors
- Stan Cohen
- Capitalism maintains control over the majority of the population by:
- Ideological dominance through the media
- Economic pressure
- Mortgages
- Only the groups on the edges of society can fight against this ideology and resist capitalism
- Brake
- Resistance is expressed through working-class subcultures
- Evaluation
- The New Crimonology
- Policing the crisis
- Stuart Hall
- Muggings
- Evaluation
- Paul Rock
- Gives a heavily romantised version of crime
- Pat Carlen
- No specific discussion of the power of the patriarchy
- Paul Rock
- Taylor, Walton and Young
- Policing the crisis
- Neo-Marxist subcultural theory
- Critical criminology
- An overview of Marxist or critical criminological approaches
- Provided a counterbalance to explanations of crime that focus on the individual, their family or their immediate community
- Forced sociologists to explore wider social factors
- Existing societies and justice systems are unfair and exploitative and in need of change
- Does not accept existing laws as being just and as an objective measure of social harm
- An overview of Marxist or critical criminological approaches
- The traditional Marxist approach
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