C + D Topic 3: Marxist Theories
- Created by: Deborah Mercy
- Created on: 02-04-13 16:36
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- Marxist Theories
- Traditional marxists
- See capitalist society as the ruling/working class
- It is a structural theory
- Believe people work for the economic base in the super structure
- View crime as 3 elements
- Criminogenic capitalism
- M. say that crime is inevitable due to the nature of society
- Capitalism oppresses the W/C for the pleasure of the upper classes
- Due to the dog eat dog attitude in society
- Gordon: crime is a response to the capitalist system
- State and law making
- Law enforcement is for the capitalist class
- Chambliss: laws to protect private property are the cornerstone of cap. society
- British colonies in East Africa
- Snider: capitalist states are reluctant to pass laws son businesses as they can threat their profitability
- Bernard Madoff ex. of fraud in capitalist society
- Selective enforcement
- Legal enforcements ignore crimes of the powerful e.g Jeffrey Reiman's book: The Rich get richer and the Poor get prison
- Ideological functions of crime + law
- Performs an ideological function for capitalism
- Health and Safety laws - make it seem like the higher classes care for the working class
- Pearce: it benefits the upper class too by keeping the workers fit to work
- Criminogenic capitalism
- Neo- marxist: critical criminology
- Neo-marxists are new version of marxists
- Taylor et al agree with traditional marxists
- Capitalist society is based on exploitation
- The state makes laws that suit the capitalist class
- Capitalism should be replaced by a classless society
- It is anti-deterministic and more voluntaristic
- A fully social theory of deviance
- It is based on understanding crime and deviance that can change/better society
- Fully social theory of deviance
- Wider orgigin of deviant acts
- Immediate origins of the deviant act
- The act in itsself
- Immediate origins of social reaction
- Wider origins of social reactions
- Effects of labelling
- Traditional marxists
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