Marxist Approaches to Crime and Deviance
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- Created on: 08-06-13 13:30
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- Marxist approaches to crime and deviance.
- Crime occurs because some are frustrated by inability to keep up with materialistic desires.
- Ideological control limits the extent of deviance and crime by persuading the masses to accept that it damages individuals property interests.
- Deviance can occur since others feel aggressive as they are deprived of possessions.
- Laws reflect interest of the ruling class.
- Pearce- laws which appears to protect interests of workers maintain acceptance of capitalist system.
- Chambliss- many laws protect private property abd this is the heart of capitalist economies.
- Snider- capitalist state reluctant to pass laws that regulate large business and threaten profitability.
- Interpretation and enforcement of law biased in favour of ruling class.
- Gordon- idea that law operates for the benefit of society as a whole is fiction.
- Hall et al- hegemonic control maintained through selective law enforcement.
- Selective law enforcement gives impression that criminals are w/c.
- Definition of what is criminal reflects dominant values.
- Cultural stress is placed on competition abd the aquisition of wealth which can lead to those blocked from this turning to criminality and deviance.
- - the theory is economicallydeterministic
- Untitled
- - Fails to consider the part played by institutions in the superstructure.
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