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Marxism + crime and deviance - Coggle Diagram
Marxism + crime and deviance
2006 BALFOUR BEATHY
fined £10 million for 4 deaths and 150 injuries from failure to maintain railways
white collar crime
crime committed in the course of legitimate employment and an abuse of an occupational role e.g. teaching and child abuse/ police and sexual assault
activity/ offences tend to consist of: fraud, insider dealing, tax evasion (less likely to be violent)
corporate crime
TNC exploitation of workers in developing countries
H+S= 2/3 health and safety violations caused by employer negligence.
where businesses commit crime e.g. green crime, health and safety violations
H+S= Rana Plaza disaster over 1000 dead, workers ignored by managers over H+S
2008, MOKNIBER
800 oer day die of smoking related diseases
8000 a day die from asbestos related cancers
US
85,000 cotton textile workers suffer from breathing related problems from dust related to their job
2007, TOMBS + WHYTE
UK, Great Western Trains fined £1.5 million for role in 1999 London train crash which killed 7 and injured 150
Gordon
class inequalities in: wealth, income, poverty, unemployment and homelessness
argues that capitalism causes class inequalities
capitalist values
these create a society where people don't care enough about each other to respect them
materialism, false needs, racism and false masculinity of violence leads to crime
competition, consumerism, individualism, self seeking, narcissism and greed
general summary
capitalism encourages: competition, consumption and profit and this is criminogenic, making crime inevitable
crime is viewed as a w/c dominance due to the fact m/c crime is ignored
inequality leads to envy and frustration
althusser
law is an ideological state apparatus which makes sure it remains normal to have some that are obscenely wealthy and some that are obscenely poor
law creation
MANNHEIM= also argues that criminal law is an alliance between corporate business and the state, while there are some laws that protect the w/c they are weakly enforced
Box= ruling class have power to block laws that aren't in their interests
MANNHEIM= argues that law protects private property and therefore protects the wealthy and profit of the ruling class
overall, all Marxists argue that law is selective