Class, power and crime

Question 1

Marxism

Answer 1

• Society serves interests of ruling class

* Conflict perspective

Question 2

Statistics

Answer 2

• Official statistics show class differences

* WC disproportionately criminalized

Question 3

Criminogenic capitalism

Answer 3

alienation, poverty, consumerism

Question 4

Law - making

Answer 4

East - African Chambliss

Question 5

Selective enforcement

Answer 5

powerless groups criminalized (but ignore white collar)

Question 6

Ideological function

Answer 6

health and safety laws

Question 7

Evaluation of explanations

Answer 7

ignores other inequalities, deterministic, not all capitalist countries have high crime

Question 8

Neo - Marxist view

Answer 8

agree about exploitation, law making and we should have a classless society
• Anti – determinism and voluntary (political act)

Question 9

Fully social theory of deviance

Answer 9

• Fully social theory of deviance – Marxism and labelling

1. wider origins of act e.g. inequality
2. immediate origins of act
3. act itself and meaning for actor
4. immediate origins of social reaction
5. wider origins of social reaction
6. effect of labelling on actor’s future actions

Question 10

Evaluation of theory of deviance

Answer 10

Burke says too general and too idealistic, criminals romanticized

Question 11

White collar crime

Answer 11

• White collar crime – crime by person of high social status
• Occupational and corporate
• Corporate (10x cost and damage than street)

Question 12

Types of corporate crime

Answer 12

• Financial crimes, against consumers, against environment, against employees and state crime

Question 13

Invisibility of corporate crime

Answer 13

media, lack of political will, complexity and de – labelling

Question 14

Explanations of corporate crime

Answer 14

strain theory, differential association, labelling and Marxism