Marxism-criminogenic Capitalism

Question 1

Marxism- crime

Answer 1

Capitalism is based on the exploitation of the wc- using them on means to make profit what ever the human cost

• particularly damaging to wc- rise in crime
• poverty may mean crime is the only way wc can survive

Question 2

State and law making- Marxist - chambliss

Answer 2

-Argues that law to protect private property are the cornerstone of the capitalist economy

Question 3

State and law Marxists

Answer 3

See capitalists society decided into two classes - ruling class- own production
-wc who the ruling class use to exploit and make profit 
Marxists is a structural theory sees society as a structure in which the economic bases ( capitalists economy) determines the shape of the super structure.

Question 4

Ideological functions of crime

Frank Pearce

Answer 4

Laws occasionally appear to benefit the wc such as work place Health and safety laws 
However frankly Pearce argues that such laws also benefit the ruling class too- keeping workers fit to work longer