Neo Marxism

Question 1

Criticise Marxism for… (3)

Answer 1

Ignoring victims of crime, assuming r/c have full control over lawmaking, being sympathetic towards offenders

Question 2

3 factors to consider why a crime happens

Answer 2

1. Individual motivating factors (like anger/alcohol) cannot give a full explanation
2. Societal factors
3. Take interactionist approach to consider the behaviour of the victim, offender, media and CJS and how they interacted to influence what happened in response to the crime

Question 3

Wider social origins of deviant act

Answer 3

The wider context like capitalism

Question 4

Immediate origins of deviant act

Answer 4

The specific situation leading criminals to commit a deviant act e.g. unemployment

Question 5

The actual act and what it means to be deviant

Answer 5

Is it seen as a political act against r/c or to support a drug habit?

Question 6

Immediate origins of societal reaction

Answer 6

How do people react to the discovery of the act?

Question 7

Outcomes of the reaction on the deviant’s further action

Answer 7

Lead to re-offending?

Question 8

Hall “Policing the crisis” (3)

Answer 8

Moral panic over mugging by black men (scapegoat), 1970s brought ‘crisis of capitalism’ bringing unemployment
Hall said by making the young black man someone to fear it united a fractured white UK society, allowing random stop and search, labelling black youths led to deviancy amplification
Hall’s ideas more comprehensive than blaming capitalism, showing the social processes in becoming criminal

Question 9

Evaluation

Answer 9

An important critique of Trad Marx economic determinism :)

Left realists like Young argue it ‘romanticises’ the view of criminals who mistakenly express their anger through crime :(