Marxism

Question 1

Marxist Acronym

Answer 1

How
The
Greedy
Capitalists
Begin to
Stop
Peace

Question 2

Hall et al

Answer 2

study of black crime of street mugging in the 1970s

Crime used to reassert the dominance of the ruling class hegemony at a time when it was under threat due to an economic and political crisis. To reassert hegemony, the media stirred up the public by exaggerating the problem of black crime, diverting attention away from the wider structural problems.

Question 3

Taylor et al

Answer 3

Structuation

Blending together labelling theory and Marxism.

Question 4

Gordon

Answer 4

Capitalist society is criminogenic

Question 5

Chambliss

Answer 5

One law for the rich and another for the poor

Law is an instrument of the ruling class and they reflect the values
and beliefs found in ruling class ideology.

Question 6

Box

Answer 6

crime is ideologically constructed

serious crime is seen as property crime and violence rather than crime
done by major corporations- i.e. Green Crime or state Crimes-
genocide.

Question 7

Snider

Answer 7

States only pass laws when forced to

Laws only protect
and benefit the ruling-class elites.

Question 8

Pearce

Answer 8

Selective law enforcement

Crime control focuses on the
working class who are more likely to be prosecuted for crime. Leaving
higher social classes to be treated more leniently, leaving white collar
crimes to go undetected.