class/power and crime

Question 1

Snider (Marxist)

Answer 1

The capitalistic state is reluctant to pass laws that regulate the activities of businesses or threaten their profitability

Question 2

Reiman (Marxist)

Answer 2

There is an overemphasis of working class crime, not as much middle class/white collar crimes

Question 3

Taylor et al (Neo Marxism)

Answer 3

A fully social theory of deviance
Marxist ideas about the unequal distribution of wealth and who has the power to make and enforce the law.
The meaning if the deviant act for the actor, societal reactions and effects of the deviant label on the individual. (Anti-determinism)

Question 4

Messerscmidt

Answer 4

Middle class men who engage in white collar crime may do so to show off their masculinity