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Neo Marxism view of crime - Coggle Diagram
Neo Marxism view of crime
More recent Marxist theorists who attempt to develop a more sophisticated approach to crime rather than crude traditional Marxist view that the law and law enforcement are simply aspects of ruling class power and control of the W/C
Takes on ideas and approaches of 2 other theories
Unequal distribution of wealth and who has more power to make and enforce the law
Labelling theory's ideas about the meaning of the deviant act and society's reactions to it
Walton and Taylor
In order to understand crime, we need to combine structuralist and interactionist approach (New Criminology)
Looking at motivations of offenders and social construction
Fully social theory of deviance - helps change society for thr better, by combining labelling and Marxism
Takes on a 'voluntarist view'
Causes of crime
Stuart Hall - criminal is a victim of capitalism
Lower people in society are marginalised (W/C and EM)
Ruling class crisis of unemployment
Hall - Britain began facing crisis in 1978, with mass protests against high unemployment and the way in Northern Island amongst other things
Crisis of hegemoney
Britain was in a state of hegemony and unemployment and lost control and had to get control again over W/C and black people
Scapegoats were EM - media amplification and ignored white crime
Moral panic
Black mugger - folk devil
Society's reaction was marginalisation
Stop and search increased and excessive policing
Increased crime by black people
Analysis (AO3)
UK drill music
Blamed for causing knife crime / violence
Wrongfully labels young boys as criminals instead of hlping depvriation
Evaluation (AO3)
Becker suggests that Hall shows the importance of labelling and how that can lead to a life in crime
Cohen argues that the media has the power to label people as criminals and exaggerate the truth, leading to crime
Young argues that the view is too romanticised
Crime as a form of resistance
Crime is committed by the W/C as a form of protest against oppression and racism found in the criminal justice system
Legal system is biased and marginalises certain groups in reaction to this
Analysis (AO3)
London riots 2011 - wrongful killing of Mark Duggan, injustice faced due to being mixed race
Black lives matter 2020 - George Floyd
Shows how people fight / protet against the biased justice system
Evaluation (AO3)
Neo Marxism has a Robin Hood philosophy - 'steal from the rich, give to the poor'
Statistics show EM against EM crime, so cannot be a response to racism
Young argues that it underplays the crimes and effects on victims
Carlen argues that females are left out of discussions about crime
Explanations for subcultures (1950s to 1980s)
CCCS - Hall and Jefferson
Subcultures act as a resistance against capitalism
Young W/C, mainly education failures, formed weakest point in ruling class control
AO2 - Teddyboys
Formed in 1950s as a way to defy capitalism
Distinctive way of dressing
Different to other subcultural theory - not to gain status through crime, but to fight against capitalism
Evaluation (AO3)
Ignores M/C boys who form subcultures (don't need to fight against capitalism)
McRobbie argues that they ignore W/C girls forming subcultures