Marxism

Question 1

Box

Answer 1

Through selective law enforcement working classes are criminalised and this creates a distorted reality - what he calls mystification. We don’t see the true levels of white collar crime

Question 2

Chambliss

Answer 2

Organised crime is controlled by the elite including the police, and while this crime was rife, most police time was spent dealing with minor public offences and street crimes

Question 3

Sutherland

Answer 3

Occupational crime - Crime committed within a business for an employees own benefit

Question 4

Gordon

Answer 4

Crime is presented as a working class problem which justifies strong law enforcement on the unruly working classes

Question 5

Pearce

Answer 5

Laws such as health and safety appear to protect the working classes, but actually are just keeping workers working, therefore they have an ideological function

Question 6

Tombs

Answer 6

Corporate crime - Crime committed by a business for their own benefit

Question 7

Hall et al.

Answer 7

Studied a moral panic around mugging and found the mugger was identified as black in order to divide the working class and distract from the failings of communism, preventing a revolution

Question 8

Taylor, Walton and Young

Answer 8

Crime is a choice, and a sign of political resistance. They created “a fully social theory of deviance” combining Marxism and Interactionism