Social Structure - Marxism

Question 1

What does Marxism assume

Answer 1

That a disadvantaged social class is the primary cause if crime that criminal behaviour begins at youth

Question 2

According to Marx what is crime a result of

Answer 2

Largely it’s a result of unfavourable conditions in a community for example unemployment in single parent families

Question 3

What do Marxist see crime as

Answer 3

See it as inevitable in a capitalist society and is used by the ruling class or bourgeois as a means of social control

Question 4

What happens if people don’t conform to a capitalist society

Answer 4

If you don’t conform you’ll be punished by institutions like police,justice system,prison,schools,family and religion which encourage you to conform

Question 5

How is crime policed

Answer 5

White-collar crime committed by the more powerful in society tends to be ignored whilst crimes committed by the working class such as theft and street crime is focused on by the police and is seen as serious

Question 6

How are are diffrent classes policed

Answer 6

Marx found that the
Proletariat is heavily policed compared to the bourgeois this is because they own the means of production
Therefore proletariat are labked as criminals raising the chance of their crimes being detected

Question 8

What do the government do according to Marx

Answer 8

They fabricate statistics to suit their own purposes this is known as the dark figure of crime,some crimes go un-reported not making it into the statistics
He found 42%of statistics presented are false and misleading