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Class, Power and Crime (Marxism (Criminogenic capitalism (Crime may be the…
Class, Power and Crime
Marxism
Criminogenic capitalism
Crime may be the only way they can obtain the consumer goods encouraged by capitalist advertising - theft
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Crime is not limited to the WC. Capitalism is a 'dog eat dog' system of ruthless competition among capitalists. Profit motive encourage a mentality of greed and self interest. Encourages capitalists to commit white collar crime.
Crime is inevitable in capitalism because capitalism is criminogenic - by its very nature its causes crime. Capitalism gives rise to crime
The state and law making
The British forced a money economy on East African colonies and with it a tax system, creating a new type of crime
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Snider argues that capitalist state is reluctant to pass laws that regulate the activities or businesses or threaten their profitability
Selective enforcement
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Impact of this - crime appears to be a largely W/C phenomenon. This divides the W/C by encouraging workers to blame the criminal in their midst for their problems, rather than capitalism
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Neo-Marxism
Anti-determinism
Taylor et al argues that Marxism is deterministic. Marxists believe that because of certain things like class and ethnicity people will commit crimes
Taylor et al sees crime as meaningful actions and conscious choice by the actor . They believe that crime is usually stem from a political motive
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Evaluation
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Left realists - romanticise the W/C crime does not take crime on poor seriously and ignores its effects on W/C victims :red_cross:
Crimes of the powerful
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Evaluation
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Nelken : strain theory and Marxism over predict the amount of business crime - it is unrealistic to assume that all businesses would offend were it not for the risk of punishment
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