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Marxist Theory of Crime - Coggle Diagram
Marxist Theory of Crime
Evaluation
Not all capitalist societies have high crime rates
Ignores ethnicity and gender as factors
Laws against corporate and white collar crimes do exist
Ignores intra-class crime where both the victim and criminal are w/c
Not all w/c commit crime despite poverty
Criminogenic Capitalism
W/c
Poverty - w/c must turn to crime to survive
Theft is the only way to obtain consumer goods
Alienation and lack of control - frustration and non-utilitarian crimes
M/c
Capitalism encourages profit making & monetary gain
White collar & corporate crime
The State and Law Making
The r/c control law making
Prevent laws from passing if it threatens their interests
Pass laws to protect their interests
Selective enforcement
Ideological Functions of Crime
Laws to benefit w/c - false consciousness
Not enforced properly
Selective enforcement
Workers blame the criminal not capitalism