marxism and crime

Question 1

criminogenic capitalism

Answer 1

GORDON- crime is a rational response to capitalism and causes crime of all social classes
WC crime- poverty cause by exploitation leads to wc comitting utilitarian crimeto durive

false need created by a consumerist society drives crime as well as ailenation of wc leading to crimes of frustration

MC crime- avlues of gree and self interst dive ruling class to succeed at all costs crime are comitted when trying to out do competetors

Question 2

example of criminogenic capitalism causing MC crime

Answer 2

Starbucks and amazon have tried to get away with only play 7 million in corporate taxes for an entire year

Question 3

criticism of criminogenic capitalism

Answer 3

not all capitlaist societies expreince high rates of crime. japan and switzerland’s homocide rate is at 1/5 of the US
suggesting capitalism isn’t necessarily criminogenic its a determinsitic view

Question 4

how do marxist argue that the state and law making benfitis the rulling classes

Answer 4

chambliss aregue that laws re made by therulling class to protect the rulling classes.

making law to protect private property sustains the rulling classes power over the workers
criminalising the WC more harshyl over drug offences to remove them as a threat
( ex crime of crack coke are 18x more likley ot be punished than powder)

selective law enforcement- even if both classes comit a crime the WC will be treated worse
chambliss saints and roughnecks study

Question 5

criticism of the state and law making

Answer 5

ignored that MC crimes are corporations are still punished.

ex bernie madoff was sentenced to the rest of his life for a $64.8 billion ponsi scheme

Question 6

ideological function of crime and law

Answer 6

laws look like they benfit everyone however they blatently favour the MC
- health and saftey laws gove capitalsm a kind face however they just ensure that WC is well enough to be exploited

media helps to reinforce image that criminals are disturbed delinquents rather than focusing the real cause of capitalism
- media coerage of the 2011 london riots focused on the ‘yobbish youth’ to turnthe focus away from capitalism

Question 7

criticism of the ideological function of crime (media_

Answer 7

the media is so vast and complex that in a post modern world creating a flase conciousness is almost imporssible

many twitter and social media campaigns focus on unfair police, issues with captialism and the CJS

Question 8

neo marxism view on crime

Answer 8

• agree with marxists that the exploitation of workers at the expense of capitalism is root cause of crime
• however they disagree that crime is criminogenic and instead argue that crime is a rational choice of poltical acitivsm
• live mordern day robin hoods neo marxists see cirminal are taking action to steal from the rich to give to the poor

Question 9

neo marxist criticsm

Answer 9

• romanticises WC criminals are political activists when in fact most crime is intra class, rather than robbing from the rich its more likely to be preying on the poor

Question 10

a fully social theory of deviance

Answer 10

• how neo-marism is investigated

taylor at al suggests that combining marxism and labelling to study WC crimes
marxism focuses of capitalism
lebelling focuses on the meaning on the deviant acts and reaction from society

hall- used this motho to show the moral panic of ‘blakc muggers’ and how it was created ti dvided the WC between blac and white to fight between themsleves and not fight against capitalism

Question 11

crticism of social theory of deviance

Answer 11

too general and board. knowing what to focus on is important and becomas a dificutl task wherer there is too much to study