Neo Marxists Flashcards

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What di they agree

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Capitalism is based on class inequality which causes crime

  • law created and enforced in favour of rc
  • capitalism should be replaced with a classless society
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New criminology

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Tayler et al - Marxism is deterministic

  • reject theories that claim behaviour is driven by external forces
  • take a voluntaristic view of crime
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Working class criminals can be seen as

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‘Robin Hood’ their crime can have the political motive of redistributing the wealth frim rich to poor

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6 aspects of deviance

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  1. Wider origins
  2. Immediate origins
  3. Act itself
  4. Immediate origins of social reaction
  5. Effects of labelling
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Hall et al

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Policing the crisis

  • British capitalism in 1970s unemployment, political unrest and strikes
  • as opposition to capitalism grows, ruling class may need to use force to maintain control
  • ruling class used media to highlight an apparent growth in mugging
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Myth of the black mugger

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Created as a scapegoat

  • moral panics divide and conquer the working classes, weakening the opposition to capitalism
  • police justified in using aggressive tactics against black pellle which created hostility towards police amongst them
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Capitalism marginalising black youth through employment leads to

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A lifestyle of petty crime for survival

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Evaluation of neo Marxists

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Gender blinds

  • romanticises working class
  • most victims of crime are working class and black, doesn’t recognise that people commit crime against their own race and class
  • don’t take crime seirously and ignore effects on working class victims
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