Social class and crime

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  • Social class and crime
    • Marxist
      • Selective lawmaking and enforcement
        • Overpolicing of WC areas
        • Chambliss
        • Laws benefit RC and take away from WC - Snider
      • Criminogenic capitalism
        • By nature capitalism causes crime
        • Helps to overcome poverty and gain items
        • Occurs in all classes
          • RC commit crime to maintain profits
      • Ideological functions
        • Laws appear to benefit WC and emphasise FCC
        • Pearce - caring face of capitalism
      • Neo Marxist - critical criminology
    • Right realist
      • Biological factors
        • Herrnstein and Wilson and Murray and Herrnstein
        • Low IQ, high aggression due to hormones
      • Socialisation
        • Underclass lack adequate socialisation
        • Effect of single parenthood, teen pregnancy and leads to juvenile delinquency
      • Rational choice theory
        • Weigh up risks and rewards of a crime
          • Low risk, high reward = crime
          • High risk, low reward = no crime
    • Functionalist
      • Subcultural strain
        • Cloward and Ohlin
          • Retreatist
          • Criminal
          • Conflict
        • Cohen - status frustration
          • Gain status through alternative hierarchy
      • Strain theory
        • Merton and American Dream
    • Postmodern
      • Crime is a legitimate career though illegal
      • Crime cannot be defined broadly as it is socially constructed
    • Interactionist
      • Becker’s labelling theory
      • Cicourel and the negotiation of justice
      • Lemert: primary and secondary deviance
        • secondary results from labelling
        • Primary often has no cause
      • Deviancy amplification - Mods and Rockers
      • Jock Young’s hippie study
    • Left realist
      • Subcultures
      • Relative deprivation
        • Media shows individuals that they are deprived
        • Pursue their self interest and individualist ideas
      • Marginalisation

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