crime and deviance Maeixst Perspective Flashcards
social stratification
different classes base on wealth and occupation, this is how it is explained to where they positioned
habitus
social group and culture influencing behaviour and choices
long shadow of work
schools like a mini factory training children for the workforce
traditional marxist
law is not an expression of value consensus func - reflects ruiling class ideology and values of capitalism
box and snider
box
certain types of crime are seen as more serious than others more w/c crimes such as thieft compared to the white collar crimes such as fraud
snider
captialist state only enforce health and safety laws if forced to
More deaths caused by corporate crimes than homocide
tradition - 2
law protects ruiling class interests and power. criminalise those who reject the ruling class ideologies
Sayer - ruling class shape law so they don’t end up in prison
legal system is run by ruiling class lawyers and judges have degrees - system is built on middle class people
traditional - 3
natural outgrowth of capitalist society focuses on greed and self interest
rational approach to the competitiveness and inequality of capitalist society
capitalist society - criminogenic crime is built and natural in capitalism if social classes as socially excluded - turn to crime
gordon
gordon
surprised w/c people don’t commit more crime
traditional 4
official statics w/c are perpetrators of crime attention is drawn away from white collar crime. blaming w/c for ‘committing more crime’
- Chambliss- crime control is focused on w/c -
- actually Pearson ‘crimes of the powerful’ white collar crimes are worse
- police in w/c areas - drug offenses- stop and search
traditional 5
w/c resistant’s against ruiling class
revolution traditional marxist
postmodernist argue
cant generalise to all crime - mental health
evaluation functionalist
meritocratic all have a choice in committing crime - Marxist say w/c is blameless however they need to take responsibility such as stealing is not right
law is fair
tax laws not all aimed at w/c tax higher income not benefitting bourgeoises - ruling class
immediate social reaction e.g.
get caught the police is called
wider social reaction e.g.
goes to prison family regrets him
outcome social reaction e.g.
comes out of prison has no family support cause them to get back to crime
why do proletariats commit crimes? Marxist
want what the ideological bourgeoises values are influencing them and stealing stuff.
Marxist subcultural theory
Cohen and brake
skinhead football violent subculture concern territory- through rejecting capitalism - through the manual worker clothing and speech.
why do they reject capitalism
makes the feel better however its false consciousness believe they deserve to be there which they believe is their decision however its just the dominant ideology
resisting capitalism
just false consciousness feeling proud but just getting rejected - they don’t want more than what they have
evaluation functionalist
meritocratic society they’re choosing to dress in that way not to reject capitalist consumerism
limitation of labelling theory
doesnt explain all crime - were you wouldnt get labelled - e.g. crime of passion
dont always accept label - determinstic - functionalist - have a choice doesnt listen to label - no self fulfilling prophecy doesnt carry on committing crime
doesnt explain cause
different reaction to deviance or where the sterotype came from - cicureol - a theory doesn’t allow for change like social polices
left realism
left wing on political spectrum - tough on crime and cause - marxist - structures oppress cause crime
