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MARXIST THEORY OF CRIME - Coggle Diagram
MARXIST THEORY OF CRIME
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EVALUATION(A03)
- largely ignores relationship between crime and non-class inequalities such as ethnicity & gender
- too deterministic and over predicts the amount of crime in the working class: not all poor people commit crime despite the pressures of poverty
- not all capitalist societies have high crime rates
- the criminal justice system doers sometimes act against the interests of the capitalist class e.g prosecutions for corporate crime do happen
- left realists argue marxism ignores intra-class crimes ( where both the criminals and the victims are working class) which cause great harm to victims
- Useful explanation of relationship between crime and capitalist society-shows link between law making and enforcements and the interests of the capitalist class