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Marxist perspectives - Coggle Diagram
Marxist perspectives
Selective law enforcement
Chambliss
One law for the rich another for the poor
Snider
Coporate crime vs Social crime - 20000 murdered per year in usa, 14000 industrial incidents, 30000 unsfe illegal consumer products, 100000 occupation onset diseases
Pearce
crimes by powerful rarely prosecuted leads to false suggestion all crimes are committed by wc
Black panther group
Not those in prisons that commit crime but those that have stolent the worlds wealth
Neo-marxist
Main aim
Provide more sophisticated and less deterministic view
View
No one is forced to commit crime
WC crime is a poltitical rebellion against exploitation
Gilroy
Black crime response to discrimination and exploitation of upper class
Hall
Black crime is used as a scapegoat to hide higher up crimes
Law is reflective of ruling class ideologies and values
Chambliss
Law is so focused on protecting private property because main interests of ruling class and bourgeoisie
Box
What is or isn't a crime is ideologically constructed by ruling class
Snider
Capitalist state only passes laws restricting private businesses when they absolutely have to because of public crisis and will weaken them whenever they can.
Society is criminogenic
Crime is a natural outgrowth of capitalist society because it fosters competition
Gordan
Not shocking wc commit crime shocking that they don't commit more of it