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Class, Power, and Crime - Coggle Diagram
Class, Power, and Crime
Marxism, class and crime
Law is enforced disproportionately against WC → take OS at face value
Criticise Labelling theory → doesn’t examine wider structure of capitalism - law making, enforcing, offending
Structural theory → economic base determines superstructure, made up of social institutions
Criminogenic capitalism
Capitalism based on exploitation → damaging to WC → rise in crime
Poverty → crime to survive
Crime to obtain consummerist goods → utilitarian crime
Alienation → frustration + aggression → violent crimes
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The state and law making
Chambliss: laws that protect private property are at cornerstone of economic base
English law in Britain’s East African colonies → need for labour
Local economy was not money eco → introduced tax → had to work on plantations
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Evaluation of Marxism
link between law making + enforcement, relationship w crime + capitalism
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