AQA A2 Sociology- New Criminology/Neo-Marxism Theory of Crime
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- New Criminology/Neo-Marxism
- Taylor: fully social theory of deviance
- Trace the wider origins of deviance to structural relationships and inequalities
- Understand the immediate origins of deviant acts to see how a persons acts are related to their circumstances
- The act itself- what the act means to that person
- Immediate origins of society's reaction- how people directly involvd react to the act
- Wider origins of society's reaction- how the rest of society react e.g. label it as deviant
- Effects of labelling- does it lead to deviance amplification
- Gilroy- Myth of black criminality
- Crimes by minorities are political
- He rejects idea that crime is due to poor socialisation, groups are defending themselves from a racist and unjust society.
- He rejects idea that minorities are prone to be criminals- its the police's racist stereotypes.
- Rastafarianism allowed the west Indians to organise themselves politically- they see white society as corrupt and oppressive so they aim to overthrow it and create a heaven on Earth.
- Evaluation
- Most 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants don't identify with anti-colonial struggles- many see themselves as British.
- He doesn't explain black on black crime.
- Hall- Moral Panics
- Capitalism ruled by consenus but at times of a crisi this is difficult.
- A media driven moral panic about mugging distracted people from the true problem- a capitalist crisis.
- The moral panic was used to divide the W/C on racial grounds which would weaken their opposition to capitalism.
- Evaluation
- Downes and Rock- He contradicts himself, he says crime is due to unemployment and racist policing.
- Young- here isn't any evidence of people panicking about mugging or identify blacks with it.
- Taylor: fully social theory of deviance
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