Chapter 6 Marxist Theory Flashcards
An economic market structured in such a way that it tends to produce criminal behaviour
Criminogenic
A series of structures that erects barriers between and individual and the production of process, the products of that process, and other people. Ultimately, it even divides the individual himself or herself. Barriers between production and people working within it
Capitalism
The failure of the CJS yields such benefits to those in positions of power that it amounts to success. Success for those in power ensure that the CJS fails
Pyrrhic Defeat Theory by Reiman
Shows a distorted of who is the ultimate threat. Threat is seen as the “young black male” when the actual threat is corporations.
Carnival Mirror
-CJS is a mirror that shows wrong image of who is the threat
Who argued that American was built on racial hierarchy an on blame-the-victim justification for the existence of poverty and class distinctions?
Anthropologist Philip Bourgois
(1995) Spanish Harlem
What factors can the underclass be defined with?
- an increase in long-term unemployment
- an increase in single-parent families (usually the mother)
- Spatial concentration of the poorest member of society in inner-city locations
- the econemic dependence of these groupings upon public or “welfare state” provisions
This perspective is connected with the unequal distribution of resources and how a structures social environment gives rise to crime and crimogenic conditions
Marxist Criminology
This position views society as a composed of a variety of groups who compete for and have differing amounts of power
Liberal-Conflict Theory
This perspective tends to explain features of social life in terms of their function (the part they play) in social life
Functionalist approach
This perspective argues that a multiplicity of values and beliefs exist in any complex sociey
Pluralism
