marxist crime
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- Created on: 19-03-19 14:17
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- Marxism and Crime
- basics of criminal law
- law operates to protect rich and powerful
- e.g benefit cap, zero hour contacts
- use superstructure to enforce and maintain
- People have unequal access to the law
- Dominant hegemony of ruling class
- ruling class impose their values upon population through superstructure (hegemony )
- Law enforcement
- Gordon - protects the system
- this is done selectively, bias in favour of those at the top
- Individual motivation
- Crime and control
- Stuart Hall
- policing the crisis
- moral panic created over mugging, which targeted black males youths - gov was able to supress this group
- policing the crisis
- arrest any sections of the population who oppose capitalism
- crime is used to divert attention away from the exploitation of the capitalist system
- Stuart Hall
- basics of criminal law
- capitalism creates a culture of envy in lower society encouraging criminal reaction
- policing the crisis
- moral panic created over mugging, which targeted black males youths - gov was able to supress this group
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