Neo Marxists

Question 1

What di they agree

Answer 1

Capitalism is based on class inequality which causes crime

• law created and enforced in favour of rc
• capitalism should be replaced with a classless society

Question 2

New criminology

Answer 2

Tayler et al - Marxism is deterministic

• reject theories that claim behaviour is driven by external forces
• take a voluntaristic view of crime

Question 3

Working class criminals can be seen as

Answer 3

‘Robin Hood’ their crime can have the political motive of redistributing the wealth frim rich to poor

Question 4

6 aspects of deviance

Answer 4

1. Wider origins
2. Immediate origins
3. Act itself
4. Immediate origins of social reaction
5. Effects of labelling

Question 5

Hall et al

Answer 5

Policing the crisis

• British capitalism in 1970s unemployment, political unrest and strikes
• as opposition to capitalism grows, ruling class may need to use force to maintain control
• ruling class used media to highlight an apparent growth in mugging

Question 6

Myth of the black mugger

Answer 6

Created as a scapegoat

• moral panics divide and conquer the working classes, weakening the opposition to capitalism
• police justified in using aggressive tactics against black pellle which created hostility towards police amongst them

Question 7

Capitalism marginalising black youth through employment leads to

Answer 7

A lifestyle of petty crime for survival

Question 8

Evaluation of neo Marxists

Answer 8

Gender blinds

• romanticises working class
• most victims of crime are working class and black, doesn’t recognise that people commit crime against their own race and class
• don’t take crime seirously and ignore effects on working class victims