marxism and neo marxism

Question 1

intro

Answer 1

-CJS part of superstucture where social institutions function to maintain eco base and serve capitalism

law reflects ruling dominate ideology protecting rc interest to maintain social order

Question 2

1- gordon criminogenic capitalism

Answer 2

• crime = inevitable as capitalism is criminogenic +causes crime
• capitialism raises crime as poverty(crime way to survive), only way gain consumer goods, alienation(lack of control=frustation+agression)

Question 3

1-gordon evaluation

Answer 3

• ao3 support -cohen status frustration lead to deviant subcultures
• a03 oppose-doest explain opportunist crime or planned crime.

Question 4

2- Chambliss - state and law making

Answer 4

• laws implemented protect private property and corner state of capitalist economy
• authorise turn blind eye to organised crime by senior officials as they involved themselves.
• intro of English law in britiains East African colonies-tea and coffee plantations with intro of tax (offence if not paid-serve rc)

Question 5

3-Gordon-selective law enforcement

Answer 5

all classes commit crimes , still selective law e only powerless eg wc/EMG’s are criminalised.
-crime committed by rc unlikely be an offence as high rate of prosecution for street crime compared to tax evasion&health and safety vio’s

Question 6

3-gordon evaluation

Answer 6

a03- opposition- leverson inquery- prosecuted news of world for phone hacking scandal.

Question 7

4-pearce- ideological functions of law+crime

Answer 7

• laws passed to keep people fit for work and exploitation creating false class c through fake caring face from capitalism.
• law enforcement being selective as divide and rule increases wc blame criminals for crime than capitalism

Question 8

neo marxism -critical criminology

Answer 8

• build on work of trad marxist, combine trad marxxist+ labelling theory.
• Taylor- agree capitalism based on exploitation as society controlled by rc

Question 9

neo marxism -too deterministic

Answer 9

Taylor- trad marxism too deterministic we have free will, crime is a conscious action trying to change society to produce classless society

Question 10

neo marxist theory of deviance

Answer 10

Taylor-takes-, its necessary to draw on structural and interactionist crime approach its socially constructed and labelling theory looking at devience, context origins of act and meaning behind it.