neo marxism and crime
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- Created on: 19-11-15 17:07
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- Neo Marxism and crime
- w/c crime is a form of political action
- Crime is used to reassert the dominance of ruling class hegemony (values)
- This is done by exaggerating the problem of working class crime in the media
- Causes moral panic which causes people to "stamp out" w/c crime and therefor control the working class
- moral panic - An instance of public anxiety or alarm in response to a problem regarded as threatening the moral standards of society
- Causes moral panic which causes people to "stamp out" w/c crime and therefor control the working class
- This is done by exaggerating the problem of working class crime in the media
- New (critical) criminology
- Taylor, Walton and Young
- suggested that a full social theory of deviance will recognise:
- Wider structural origins of deviant acts
- immediate origins or deviant acts
- the deviant act itself and the meanings it offers
- immediate social reactions to deviant act
- wider social reactions to deviant act
- The effects of labelling
- this model locates crime as being a product of the social system the person is Immersed in
- Can be related to the Toxteth Riots and the 2011 London Riots
- criticised classical Marxism for there determinism (poverty leads to crime)
- Also think that neo Marxists ignore the individual meaning behind crime
- suggested that a full social theory of deviance will recognise:
- Taylor, Walton and Young
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