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1
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What does criminogenic capitalism mean?

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Capitalism creates crime

2
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(Criminogenic capitalism) how does poverty link to crime?

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Crime is the only way people can survive

3
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(Criminogenic capitalism) how is crime linked to consumerism?

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People commit crime to get the consumer goods promoted by advertising that they can’t afford

4
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(Criminogenic capitalism) how does alienation and lack of control lead to crime?

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It leads to frustration and non utilitarian crimes

5
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(Criminogenic capitalism) emphasis on profit encourages what?

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Greed and corporate crime

6
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(Criminogenic capitalism) Gordon says crime is what?

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A rational response to capitalism

7
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(State and law making) Marxists say laws are made to protect who?

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The ruling class and their business interests

8
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(State and law making) chambliss what was introduced into East African colonies?

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Tax laws to force the population to work on plantations to earn the money to pay the tax

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(State and law making) snider talked about non decision making, what is this?

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Ruling class prevent introduction of laws threatening their business interests

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(State and law making) snider - give an example of areas of non decision making:

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Alcohol and cigarette industry
Pay gap
Working conditions

11
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(Selective law enforcement) everyone commits crime but who are more likely to be imprisoned?

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The working class and ethnic minorities

12
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(Selective law enforcement) what was reimans study called?

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The rich get richer the poor get prison

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(Selective law enforcement) Reiman - the more likely a crime is to be committed by a high class person the less likely what?

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It will be treated as an offence

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(Selective law enforcement) Reiman - there is a disproportionately high rate of what?

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Street crime

15
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(Ideological functions of crime & law) laws are occasionally passed that appear to do what?

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Benefit the working class such as health and safety

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(Ideological functions of crime & law) Pearce - how do health and safety laws really benefit the ruling class?

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Keep workers fit and create a false class consciousness giving capitalism a caring face

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(Ideological functions of crime & law) Carson - laws are not rigorously enforced of 200 firms how many broke HS laws?

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All of them

Only 1.5% prosecuted

18
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(Ideological functions of crime & law) crime appears to be all working class encouraging what?

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Divisions in the working class making them blame the criminals rather than capitalism

19
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(Ideological functions of crime & law) the media portray criminals as disturbed concealing what?

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The fact that capitalism is the main issue

20
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(Corporate crime) what is corporate crime?

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Crimes committed by big businesses often affecting a lot of people

21
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(Corporate crime) why are they rarely prosecuted or reported?

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Not a single bad guy
Many responsible
Money and power to keep it quiet

22
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Strengths - Marxists show a link between law making and what?

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Capitalist interests

23
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Strengths - Marxists explain why the working class are what?

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Viewed as criminal

24
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Strength - Marxist ideas have influenced more research into what?

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Corporate crime

25
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Weakness - focus on capitalism means what is ignored?

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Other factors such as gender or ethnicity

26
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Weakness - not all capitalist countries have what?

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High crime rates

27
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Weakness - realists criticise Marxists for ignoring increasing what?

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Inner city crime affecting working class communities

28
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Weakness - Marxists ignore who?

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The victims

29
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(Neo Marxists) Taylor Walton and young decided the new criminology which combined what?

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Labelling and capitalism

30
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(Neo Marxists) a full social theory of deviance needs to take into account what?

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Both wider society and the individual

31
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(Neo Marxists) hall talked about what?

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The policing crisis

32
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(Neo Marxists) hall - 1. What needs to be taken into account?

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The wider origins of deviance - street crime of Caribbean immigrants

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(Neo Marxists) hall - 2. Origins of deviance also need to be taken into account e.g.

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Black youths not accepting racism

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(Neo Marxists) hall 3. The origins of social reaction e.g.

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The media created a moral panic over mugging

35
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(Neo Marxists) Hall 4. The wider origins of the crisis was actually a crisis of what?

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Capitalism

Black people were scapegoated

36
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(Neo Marxists) hall 5. What was the outcome?

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Police crackdown
Stop and search
Deviancy amplification

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