Crime And Deviance Flashcards
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Marxism basics intro
Marx and Engels to case studies Social inequality=crime (capitalism is criminogenic) Upper class (bourgeoise) lower (proletariat) Struggle and demoralisation of the working class (Engels)=taking property and stealing Resistance is a natural response (Engels) from exploitative capitalism
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The case studies
CENSURE, CRIME CONTEXTUAL- Black Act 1723
PROTEST-Looting 2011 riots
PROTEST TO HARM- Luddism
PROTEST CHANGES POLICY- Woman’s suffrage 1928
CORPORATE CRIME-Ford Pinto
POLITICAL CRIME-Boris Johnson £350m to EU
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Conclusion
Capitalist society= criminogenic, motivated by money
Social war between Proletariat and Bourgeoisie (Engels)
Breaks down social relations
Gordon- crime is a rational response to capitalism and is found in every class
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Black Act and theories
New labels (labelling on what is political) Foucault (establishing new categories defines deviance)
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London Riots 2011 and theories
Proletarian desire for material goods, recognise monetary value of produced items
Cost to replace would be damaging to the structure they protest
Demoralisation from unemployment
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Luddism and theories
Target means of production, what is valued in society
Cost to replace is damaging to the structure
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Ford Pinto and theories
Crimes driven by economics, Capitalism
People seen as monetary value prompting lack of morals
Driven by means of production and gaining money, no morals
Chambliss- selective law enforcement for rich and poor, mostly prosecute the working class
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Crime in society itself
Precarious economics e.g. industrialisation causing displacement and prostitution. Capitalist structures have crime
Weakened economic state of poor in a land driven by capital
Worsened when have less benefits and food banks
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Woman’s suffrage and theories
Challenged political structure (terror)
Challenge hegemony, subvert their label as the weaker sex
Gramsci- win the heart and minds to stay in power and continue control
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Disciplinary power- Catholic Church Ireland 19-20c independence and new Irish identity, new perceptions on women
Coercive confinement-Magdalene laundries
Regimes of truth- women accepted as sinful, lesser citizens, forced labour, reinforced gender roles= legitimised incarceration
Illegalities-deviating from Catholic Church e.g. sexuality
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Magdalene Laundries
Confined space to ‘protect, reform and rehabilitate’
To cleanse women of sins
For those who were too promiscuous, attractive, bore children out of wedlock, physically and mentally challenged
=validates incarnation
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ILLEGALITY- sexuality
Sexuality reinforced from truths as a sin
Contradict catholic law by exhibiting a sexual nature
Victim blaming (male rapists not considered criminal)
Canocal law means it equals punishment in coercive confinement
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TRUTH- women sinful and impure, sexually deviant
Gender and dichotomies Women as virtuous etc
POWER contributed to construct of sexuality, non pro creative sex as negative and anti catholic
Catholic law ruled, defined moral outlook: “Repressive hypothesis” -sex outside confines (Catholic) are forbidden
Sexuality monitored by canonical law
Impure so have to ‘wash’, contrast Virgin Mary
Treated as prisoners, children removed from them
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TRUTH- Women punished and made to labour
Second class citizens
Forced into (free) labour for economic benefit- labour of women
Hidden and confined, names removed
Forced to repent and see self as sinful
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Foucault conclusion
Illegalities= truths and effortless incarceration
FOUCAULT Validated abuse in name of salvation
History of sexuality- Sex controlled by state
Censures not based on criminal law
