Marxism,class and crime Flashcards
What is criminogentic capitalism?
Capitalism causes crime
How does capitlism cause crime?
- Poverty : The only way the WC can survive
- WC obtaining material goods which are encouraged through capitalist advertising. (resulting in utilitarism crime)
- Alienation and lack of control over their lives may lead to frustration and aggression = non- utlitarin crime
What does Chamberlin argue is the purpose of law.
Laws to protect private property are the basis of capitalist economy.
What is Neo-Marxism also called?
Critical Criminology
Key Sociologists
Taylor, Walton, Young
What theory is this a combination for?
Traditional Marxism and Labelling theory
Taylor et al -‘fully social theory of deviance.’
They identified 6 aspects of crime and deviance that need to be studided in order to understand crime.
3 Ways NM agrees with Marxism:
> Capitalism based on exploitation & inequality, key to understanding crime
> State enforces laws for benefit of UC
> Favour classless society, where crimes greatly reduced
The 6 aspects of A Fully social theory of deviance
- The wider origins of the deviant act
- The immediate origns of the deviant act
- The act itself
- The immediate origins of social reactions
- The wider origns of social reaction
- The effects of labelling
What is Anti-Determinism (Taylor)?
Reject idea workers do crime due to poverty as well as ext factors e.g. anomie & labelling.
Voluntarism ( Taylor et al)
The idea that we have free will - opposite of deterministic. They see crime as meaningful action and conscious choice
Evaluation - Strength
Theory makes sense as to why some people dont necessairly commit crimes.
Evaluation - Feminists
Femanist critise the theory for being gender blind
Evaluation - Left realists
Claim that this approach romantisise workinig class crime as being commited by ‘RobinHood’s’
