Taylor, Walton and Young

• Taylor, Walton and Young

  • rejection of trad. Marxist view that workers are driven to crime by economic necessity
  • believe crime is a voluntary act
  • argue crime has a political motive, e.g. redistribute wealth from rich to poor
  • criminals are not passive puppets whose behaviour is shaped by the capitalism = deliberately striving to change capitalism
• Marxism

  Looks at wider society and how capitalism might generate the circumstances of motivation behind the crime
• Interactionism

  See how situation develops through the relationship between victim, offender, media, CJS
• Neo-Marxism social theory of deviance: Traditional Marxism

  Ideas about the unequal distribution of wealth and who has the power to make and enforce the law
• Neo-Marxism social theory of deviance: Interactionism and labelling

  Meaning of the deviant act for the deviant, societal reactions to it and the effects of the deviant label on the individual