Class, Power, and Crime Flashcards

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An econmic system where trade/industry is controlled by private owners for profit.

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Capitalism

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The economic base which underpins and determines everything else in society.

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Infrastructure

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The land, factories, raw materials, technology and labour necessary to produce society’s goods.

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Means of Production

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The ‘extra’ that is produced by workers which provides profit for the employer.

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Surplus Value

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The workers who produce things do not get full value of their work.

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Exploitation

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A small wealthy and powerful class who are the owners of the means of production.

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Bourgeoisie

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A large poorer class of non-owners, who have no means of living other than to sell their labour.

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Proletariat

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What the proletariat sells to the bourgeoisie in exchange for a wage/salary.

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Labour Power

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A lack of awareness by the working class of their own interests.

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False Class Conciousness

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Because the bourgeoisie owend the means of production, they could decide others factors and influence the rest of society without being ignored.

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Ruling Class Ideology

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The nature, organisationand values of capitalism cause crime.

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Criminogenic

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Crime committed for material gain, e.g. theft and fraud.

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Utilitarian Crime

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A crime that involves the abuse of trust and power associated with particular occupational roles.

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White Collar Crime

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When crime is committed for the company’s benefit.

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Corporate Crime

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Competition, greed, profit, consumerism, selfishness and individualism.

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Capitalist Values

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Marxists see these as serving the interests of the ruling class, and they get to use their own definition of crime to create laws.

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The State and Law Making

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Selective law enforcement

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Reimann

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Ideolgical functions of crime - law is part of the ideological state apparatus and in the interest of the ruling class.

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Louis Althusser

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Invisibility of white collar and corporate crime - Argues that the costs of corporate crime and white collar crime far outstrip the cost of blue (street) collar crime, but they are not often regarded as a serious problem by the public.

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Croall

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Aims to combine many of the traditional Marxist ideas with ideas from the labelling theory.

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Neo-Marxism