Neo-Marxism
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- Created on: 23-12-17 10:35
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- Neo-Marxism
- They combine the marxist approach with ideas from other approaches such as labelling
- 'New Marxism" also known as 'Radical Criminology"
- Full Social Theory of Deviance
- Taylor, Walton and Young
- They identified 7 characteristics
- 1. How wealth and power are distributed in society
- 2. the circumstances surrounding individuals decisions to commit deviance
- 3. consider the deviant act itself, in order to know it's reason for the person
- 4. What ways and why other members of society react to the deviance
- 5. Who has the power in society to create rules and explain why some acts are treated more serenely that others
- 6. Effects of deviant labels to the person
- 7. Relationship between different aspects to create theory
- They identified 7 characteristics
- To workout why people are criminal, you have to understand...
- How the economy of society is organised
- A capitalism system where some have more wealth and power than others.
- Rather than looking at the individuals motivation and obvious influences...
- Neo-marxist look at wider capitalist society that is helping to generate crime and responses
- its makes people choose to be criminal
- Showing frustrations of society by breaking laws
- People make a 'choice' to commit
- Neo-marxist look at wider capitalist society that is helping to generate crime and responses
- Taylor, Walton and Young
- Policing the crisis
- Stuart Hall
- The study of moral panic over 'mugging as an idea to distract attention from failings of capitalism
- The media focus on street crimes which political and policing agenda
- The referring to young black men as the robbers meant they were heavily criminalised so they can be heavily controlled
- They combine the marxist approach with ideas from other approaches such as labelling
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