Traditional Marxist (3 Elements) Flashcards

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What are the 3 elements ?

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  • crimogenic capitalism
  • the state and law making
  • ideological function of crime and law
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Explain crimogenic capitalism

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  • capitalism is crimogenic
  • poor people often driven to crime in desperate conditions eg poverty
  • alienation and lack of control lead to frustration and aggression, resulting in non-utilitarian crime such as violence and vandalism
  • society based upon competition, selfishness and greed. crime is normal outcome (white collar crime)
  • crime might be to obtain/consumer goods which is encouraged by capitalist advertising, resulting in utilitarian crime
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Theorist for crimogenic capitalism

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Gorban - crime is a rational response to the capitalist system, and found in all social classes

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Explain The State and Law-making

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  • laws protect middle class//targets the w/c
  • SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT
  • ruling class have power to prevent the introduction of laws that would threaten their interests
  • few laws challenge unequal redistribution of wealth —> Snider
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Explain The State and Law making - Snider

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Snider argues capitalist state is reluction to pass laws that regulate activities of businesses or threaten their profitability.

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Explain Selective enforcement- The State and Law making

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  • marxist agreed with labelling theorists although all classes commit crime, therefore selective enforcement of the law
  • w/c and ethnic minorities criminalised more. police and court ignore the crimes of the powerful.
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Explain ideological functions of crime and law

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  • performs function to keep capitalism state
  • law occasionally passed that appeal to benefit the w/c rather than work place health and safety law
  • ## people do not question capitalism as they are under the illusion that the law cares for them - PACIFIER CONCEPT
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Explain ideological functions of crime and law Theorist

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Pearce - law often benefits the ruling class eg keeping workers fit for work. creates class class consciousness

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What does criminogenic mean

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Gordon argues the set up of capitalist society creates crime

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Evaluation of Trad Marx

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  • largely ignores the relationship between crime and non-class inequalities such as ethnicity and gender
  • too deterministic. over predicted the amount of crime in the w/c. not all poor people commit crime
  • not all capitalist societies have high crime rates; eg in Japan the homicide rate is only about a fifth of that in the US
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Left realists evaluation of Trad Marx

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argue that marxism ignored intra-class crime eg burglary and mugging

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What is intra-class crime

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where both criminal and victims are working class. eg robbery

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