crime & deviance- marxism Flashcards
Gordon
Crime is a rational response to capitalism meaning it is found in all classes, however this is not reflected in OS which emphasises w/c crime.
Chambliss
East Africans who were forced to work for tea and coffee trades in order to be able to pay for taxes.
Snider
Capitalist state reluctant to pass laws that regulate businesses and make them lose out on profit.
Reiman
“The rich get richer and the poor get prison” (m/c crimes ignored in favour of street crime).
Pearce
Health and safety laws benefit employers by keeping employees fit to work, which creates a “false consciousness”
Taylor et al
Marxism too deterministic so they argue crime has a voluntaristic element, eg redistributing wealth to the poor.
Burke
Neomarxist ideas too general and idealistic which does not address the prevention of crime.
Hall et al
Successfully applies Taylor et al’s approach to explain moral panic over mugging in 70s.
Reiman & Layton
More likely a crime is by m/c, less likely to be treated as an offense.
Sutherland
First coined white collar crime as committed by a person of high social status in their occupation.
Pearce & Tombs
Redefinition of corporate crime to distinguish between deliberate negligence of occupational vs corporate.
Tombs
Financial, against consumers, against employees, environmental, state-corporate.
‘Widespread, routine and pervasive”.
Box
1) Strain theory of Marxism.
2) “Mystication” of crime where corporate crime seen as less widespread and harmful.
Clinard & Yeager
More profit company loses, more they increase corporate crime.
Sutherland
Crime in context with the norms of a company; employees will deviate if there are criminal subcultures within a workplace and they are then encouraged to neutralise this.
