Social class and crime
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- Created on: 15-11-21 12:55
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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
- Selective lawmaking and enforcement
- 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
- Weigh up risks and rewards of a crime
- Biological factors
- Functionalist
- Subcultural strain
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Retreatist
- Criminal
- Conflict
- Cohen - status frustration
- Gain status through alternative hierarchy
- Cloward and Ohlin
- Strain theory
- Merton and American Dream
- Subcultural strain
- 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
- Marxist
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