crime and deviance Maeixst Perspective

Question 1

social stratification

Answer 1

different classes base on wealth and occupation, this is how it is explained to where they positioned

Question 2

habitus

Answer 2

social group and culture influencing behaviour and choices

Question 3

long shadow of work

Answer 3

schools like a mini factory training children for the workforce

Question 4

traditional marxist
law is not an expression of value consensus func - reflects ruiling class ideology and values of capitalism

Answer 4

box and snider

Question 5

box

Answer 5

certain types of crime are seen as more serious than others more w/c crimes such as thieft compared to the white collar crimes such as fraud

Question 6

snider

Answer 6

captialist state only enforce health and safety laws if forced to

More deaths caused by corporate crimes than homocide

Question 7

tradition - 2
law protects ruiling class interests and power. criminalise those who reject the ruling class ideologies

Answer 7

Sayer - ruling class shape law so they don’t end up in prison

legal system is run by ruiling class lawyers and judges have degrees - system is built on middle class people

Question 8

traditional - 3
natural outgrowth of capitalist society focuses on greed and self interest
rational approach to the competitiveness and inequality of capitalist society

Answer 8

capitalist society - criminogenic crime is built and natural in capitalism if social classes as socially excluded - turn to crime
gordon

Question 9

gordon

Answer 9

surprised w/c people don’t commit more crime

Question 10

traditional 4
official statics w/c are perpetrators of crime attention is drawn away from white collar crime. blaming w/c for ‘committing more crime’

Answer 10

• Chambliss- crime control is focused on w/c -
• actually Pearson ‘crimes of the powerful’ white collar crimes are worse
• police in w/c areas - drug offenses- stop and search

Question 11

traditional 5
w/c resistant’s against ruiling class

Answer 11

revolution traditional marxist

Question 12

postmodernist argue

Answer 12

cant generalise to all crime - mental health

Question 13

evaluation functionalist

Answer 13

meritocratic all have a choice in committing crime - Marxist say w/c is blameless however they need to take responsibility such as stealing is not right

Question 14

law is fair

Answer 14

tax laws not all aimed at w/c tax higher income not benefitting bourgeoises - ruling class

Question 15

immediate social reaction e.g.

Answer 15

get caught the police is called

Question 16

wider social reaction e.g.

Answer 16

goes to prison family regrets him

Question 17

outcome social reaction e.g.

Answer 17

comes out of prison has no family support cause them to get back to crime

Question 18

why do proletariats commit crimes? Marxist

Answer 18

want what the ideological bourgeoises values are influencing them and stealing stuff.

Question 19

Marxist subcultural theory

Answer 19

Cohen and brake
skinhead football violent subculture concern territory- through rejecting capitalism - through the manual worker clothing and speech.

Question 20

why do they reject capitalism

Answer 20

makes the feel better however its false consciousness believe they deserve to be there which they believe is their decision however its just the dominant ideology

Question 21

resisting capitalism

Answer 21

just false consciousness feeling proud but just getting rejected - they don’t want more than what they have

Question 22

evaluation functionalist

Answer 22

meritocratic society they’re choosing to dress in that way not to reject capitalist consumerism

Question 23

limitation of labelling theory

Answer 23

doesnt explain all crime - were you wouldnt get labelled - e.g. crime of passion

dont always accept label - determinstic - functionalist - have a choice doesnt listen to label - no self fulfilling prophecy doesnt carry on committing crime

doesnt explain cause
different reaction to deviance or where the sterotype came from - cicureol - a theory doesn’t allow for change like social polices

Question 24

left realism

Answer 24

left wing on political spectrum - tough on crime and cause - marxist - structures oppress cause crime

Question 25

right realism

Answer 25

right wing on political spectrum - tougher on criminals that cause - functionalist - all have a choice not forced to do crime so no cause

Question 26

right realism - wilson and herrnstein

Answer 26

biosocial theroy - innately predisposed to crime - e.g. agressive, risk taking

Question 27

right realism - heirnstein and murray

Answer 27

cause of crime - low intelligent

Question 28

right realism - clark +gordon

Answer 28

free will func - rewards > cost
- policies for greater punishment

Question 29

value moral consensus underpins society - argue whats right and wrong - functionalist

Answer 29

postmodernist depends on circumstance

Question 30

reducing crime is through control and punishment -
clark and gordon - greater cost

Answer 30

marxist - punishment is pointless as the w/c are oppressed into crime so the punishment is less of a loss for them

Question 31

move away from search the cause for cause towards practical soultions

Answer 31

marxist say focus on the problem

Question 32

neighbourhood watch scheme more effective than police (crime) - less social control bias ( marxist bourgeosis values)

Answer 32

not much power

Question 33

people are naturally selfish and self seeking
wilson + herrnstein

Answer 33

postmodernist cant generalise to all crime - mental health crime
- biosical innate to crime

Question 34

crime always exist - biology reducing impact
wilson and hernnstein

Answer 34

not all biologically caused can be socialised qualities

Question 35

hernnstein and murray

Answer 35

more intellligent - less crime commited
couldnt get good GCSE’s no well paying job - theift - proletariats oppressed

Question 36

crime rational choice gain vs cost
stealing - feel as though they wont get caught
clark and gordon

Answer 36

marxist - need not a want for committing crime - oppression

Question 37

Neo Marxist gilroy

Answer 37

Crime was a political resistance (London riot triggered by ) killing of mark duggin, and not the results of left realists

Question 38

2 Marxist oppression theories causing crime

Answer 38

Economic pressure
Ideologically dominance in the media