- look at the individual and the causes which could have led them to commit crime
- stems from Jock Young who was originally a neo marxist
Other perpectives don't take crime seriously;
- traditional marxism - focus too much on corporate crime, neglecting the working class and its contribution to crime
- neo marxism - romantacise working class criminals as the latter day Robin Hood and see them as political resistance to capitalisms when in fact the working class victimise other working class people
- labelling theorists - the working class are victims of discriminatory labelling, this neglects the real victims, the working class at the suffering hands of crime
Young (1997)
- aetiological crisis
- we need to acknowledge the rising crime rate and the disadvantaged groups at risk
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