Marxist theories on crime and deviance
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- Created on: 05-06-13 20:30
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- Marxist Theories
- Traditional Marxism
- Criminogenic capitalism
- Crime is inevitable in capitalism as it is criminogenic (its nature causes crime)
- Capitalism exploits the W/C
- Crime may be the only way of obtaining consumer goods that capitalism advertises
- In poverty crime may be the only way to survive
- Alienation may cause frustration-leading to non-utilitarian crime
- Ruling class crime is a result of the dog-eat-dog system of greed= corporate crime
- Capitalism exploits the W/C
- Crime is inevitable in capitalism as it is criminogenic (its nature causes crime)
- The State and law making
- Selective eonforcement
- Reiman- laws of the powerful are more likely to be ignored. While W/C crime there are higher rates of prosecution
- Serves the interests of the R/C
- Chambliss- Private property laws
- Selective eonforcement
- Ideological functions of crime and law
- Pearce-There are a few laws that seem to benefit workers. But they also benefit capitalism and create a false consciousness
- Evaluation
- It ignores inequalities in ethnicity and gender
- Japan and Switzerland have low crime rates and they are capitalist
- The CJS does sometimes prosecute against the R/C
- Criminogenic capitalism
- Neo-Marxism: Critical criminology
- A fully social theory of deviance
- To understand and change society need to combine....
- Traditional Marxist ideas about unequal distribution of wealth and who has power to make law
- Labelling theory ideas about the meaning of the act for the actor, societal reaction and the effect of the deviant label
- To understand and change society need to combine....
- Evaluation
- Left realists say it romanticises criminals as 'Robin Hoods'
- Feminists argue it is gender blind
- Vouluntarism
- They believe that we have free will so crime is a conscious choice often with a political motive e.g to redistribute wealth to change society
- Taylor et al agree much with traditional Marxism but see it as too deterministic
- A fully social theory of deviance
- Traditional Marxism
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