Sociology Marxism

Question 1

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P - Capitalism does not cause crime
E - national audit database - “tax avoidence costs £34 billion per year”
E - Marxist - Marx - society is individualistic
Feminist - Radford - Personal element to crime, doubly deviant
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Feminism

Question 2

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P - Capitalism Causes Crime - Criminogenic
E - CSEW 2011 - “ poorer housholds are more likely to be burgled”
E - Marxist - Gordon - Capitalism is Criminogenic
Realists - Clarke - Rational Choice
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Realism

Question 3

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P - Crime is Universal in Society
E - Farell - “middle classes are more likely to admit to tax fraud”
E - Marxist - Althusser - Social Control working class
Functionalist - Durkheim - Shared Values, Organic analogy
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Functionalist

Question 4

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P - Laws are created to favour the upper class
E - Blomerg - “29% of news stories referenced benefit fraud”
E - Marxist - Box - Social Control upper class
Realist - Lea and Young - triangle of crime
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Realism

Question 5

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P - Laws are enforced to favour the upper class
E - MOJ 2017 - “74% of prosecutions were male , 26% were female”
E - Neo - Marxist - Walter, Taylor and Young - New Criminology
Interactionist - Matza - Greed causes crime
L - Marxism offers a better explanation than Interactionsim