• Focuses on economic inequality and inequality in power
•  the thoery focuses on the plotical sturcture  as they are responsible for maintaining law and order
• focuses on which social group benefits  capitalist law and order
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•  The law and order in the Capitalist society always relfect  the intrests of the bourgoise
•  Therefore the defination of crime is from the dominate ones
•  They don't believe that the law benefits everyone but only  benifits the view of the bourgoise
•  The law and order enables the ruling class  to  control over the working class

•  He is always critised about the economic reductionalist  as he reduces the cause crimke to ecomonic ineqaulity
• He ingonres enthincity and gender In crime and deviance

• Crime and deviance is manily focused on  the working class  which means that the  Bourgoise use thier power to control them
•  Therefore the BOURGOISE  can justify controlling by increasing the police force
• If law breaking is linked to working class then this  distracts  the police force frok  ppaying attention at the crime made by the ruling class  

•  As Marx as been criticised as being economically reductionalist , Neo- marxists stress that people have relative autonomy
• Not all action are determined by the economic factors
•  they Believe that marx need to focuse on things like culture and ideology

Gramsci

Hegomony theory

• He said that ideology and hegomony was  crucial to legimating the capitalists stystem
• Hegomonic  is the capitalists ideas therefore the working class  will acppet them  
• e.g.
• The government laws,education system, work place system

Hall

Policing crisis

• He used Gramsci's theory to demostrate the hegomonic  idea exposed in our society.
•  Mugging   events in the media became linked  to black  youth
•  At that time there was enconomic crisis and it was hard  for people to find jobs
•  The  panic of muggingin influenced by the media distructed the popultaion from the economic  crisis
•  The "policing crisis" shows  how the dominate class  use thier hegomonic ideas to puish the problem of their own  into another direction

The New crimonology

Taylor et al

• They wanted to show that  the crime and deviance was  not only  based on economic factors but was influenced by the non- economic factors
•  So they linked the marxist approach  with social action theory
•  Such as The inequality in wealth and power & the power of  labelling
•  The new criminology believe that the separate laws for separate social groups  allowed the  crime of the powerful be neglected.