Marxism Flashcards
Box
AO2 Trafigura
- Selective law enforcement
- Crime stats are constructed by the powerful.
- Eg) Murder is percieved as worse from the working class because its in person, whereas corporate buisness its only seen as a health and safety failure rather then murder, eg trafigura.
- Bourgeousie are the ones who determine what is defined as ‘avoidable killing’.
- bourgeousie killings are lessened to negligence or health and safety failures.
- Crime stats manipulated to criminalise the powerful
- If we believe crime is a problem, an increase in policing, punishment and surveilience can be justified.
- the B use stats to prove the WC of crime but they also control the statistics. EG working class black males are an example.
- Diverts our attention from the serious crimes of the B.
AO3 Box
Gordon
-crime is a rational response
- capatlism encourages people to compeat for stuff, leading to inequalities, leading to crime. ( Inequaliy leads to crime)
- Focus of public fear is on street which means little attention is is paid to white collar crime (Eg Tax evasion)
- Crime is seen as a working class problem.
- Capitalism encourags competition of resources and leads to inequalities.
- IN THE B: To get ahea of competition and maximise profit, corperate crime is committed.
- THE P: Poverty leads to crime to survive. Alienation leads to violence out of frustration.
Althusser
- Ideological state apprutas and reppresive state apparatus.
- Repressive: For people whp question the ISA. This for forcably controls the proletariat. (eg police, law).
-Ideological: Used to control the masses through socialization (eg family, work, religion).
Chambliss
- most laws in the US and Uk have property laws. which protects people who ‘owns things’.
- the ruling class use wealth status to bribe officials and avoid punishment like Donald Trump, therefore the criminal justice system was not actively trying to catch them like they do with the working class.
- the wealthiest 10% of households own nearly 45% of all wealth in the country, with much of this wealth involved with property.
- roughly 100,000 people recognised as homeless in the UK, and 300,000 houses lying empty.
ETHOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SEATTLE.
- no designed law protecting lower class.
- bribe officials to avoid punishment, doesnt actively try catch upper class, they use their wealth.
Chambliss AO3
There are laws that protect the powerless (Equality act 2010)
gives power to the proletariat to take legal action against the bourgeousie.
Cultural Criminology
