marxism

Question 1

strengths of marxism:
(2)

Answer 1

shows how poverty and inequality can cause w/c crime and how capitalism promotes greed and encouraged upper class crime

shows how law enforcement and law making are biased against w/c and in favour of the powerful e.g corporate crimes are rarely prosecuted

Question 2

weaknesses of marxism:
(2)

Answer 2

focuses on class and largely ignores the relationship between crime and other inequalities e.g gender and ethnicity

not all capitalist societies have high crime rates e.g Japan’s homicide rates is only about 1/5 of USA’s (marxists do point out capitalist societies with little welfare provision like USA have higher crime rates