Social Construction of Crime Flashcards
What is the Interactionist view?
Cicourel - police stereotypical assumptions and use of discretion means crime statistics are socially constructed
What is the Marxist view?
Chambliss - police are a RSA - crime stats are as such socially constructed
What is the Feminist view?
The police represent patriarchal ideology and as such crime is socially constructed
Walklate - secondary victimisation
Smart - courts hold patriarchal assumptions leading to rape victims being ‘on trial’
Which theorist found institutional racism in the police?
Holdaway and the Macpherson Enquiry; suggests that crime is socially constructed
What other factors suggest crime is socially constructed?
Police use of discretion, coughing, cuffing and recording practises
Courts use plea bargaining
Many High Court Judges/ Magistrates are publicly schooled
