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- Capitalism creates crime.
- W/C Poverty
- W/C Media - utilitarian crimes
- W/C Alienation - non-utilitarian crimes
- R/C - dog eat dog world
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- Controlled by ruling classes - only benefits them.
- Chambliss - Britain is only interested in african colonies for money
- Ruling class prevent introduction of laws that may threaten their power.
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- All classes commit crime
- Powerless groups such as w/c are more likely to be criminalised.
- Reiman - more likely a crime is commited by a higher loyalty the less likely they are to be prosecuted.
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| Ideological Functions of Crime and Law |
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- Laws passed appearing to help w/c
- Pearce - makes capitalism have a "caring face"
- However, the laws are not rigorously forced.
- Crime appears w/c - divides them.
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| Criticisms of Traditional Marxists Approach to Crime and Deviance |
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- We all have a free will
- Ignores ethnicity/gender and crime
- Deterministic
- Economically reductionist
- Ignores intra-class crime
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