Marxists

Question 1

point?

Answer 1

capitalism is criminogenic

Question 2

evidence?

Answer 2

Chambliss

the criminal justice system protects private property by punishing criminal deviance according to the interests of the ruling-class

Question 3

analysis?

Answer 3

Reiman

selective enforcement with laws prohibiting working-class criminal deviance heavily enforced whilst ruling-class law-breaking behaviour is ignored

Question 4

evaluation?

Answer 4

Becker argue moral entrepreneurs redefine criminal deviance to expand the power of an agency of social control and label a social group as criminally deviant

Question 5

point? 2

Answer 5

critical criminology
: the wider and immediate origins of deviance

Question 6

evidence? 2

Answer 6

Taylor, Walton, and Young

argue the first marxists point alone is too deterministic and hides the agency of people to direct their own behaviour and this explains the ‘immediate origins

Question 7

analysis? 2

Answer 7

Hall (1978) examined a moral panic around mugging

ruling classes desire to divert attention from the crisis in capitalism

people determined their own actions, rather than acting as passive puppets.

Question 8

evaluation? 2

Answer 8

Merton argues the cultural-structural opportunity contradiction causes crime because societies culturally encourage success but structurally deny it