Overall Evaluation of Marxist Explanations

• What do Marxist explanations for crime and deviance tend to reduce everything to?

  Economics
• What do post-modernists argue about society in relation to Marxist explanations?

  Society is complex and fragmented
• What do realist sociologists accuse Marxists of regarding criminals?

  Presenting criminals as the real victims
• According to left realists, who are most victims of crime?

  Working class individuals
• What do feminists note about Marxist and neo-Marxist accounts?

  Women are largely absent from them
• Why are men more likely to commit crimes than women?

  This is addressed in the social distribution of crime by gender
• How are proletarian crimes treated compared to bourgeois crimes?

  Proletarian crimes are treated more seriously
• Why might the state treat proletarian crimes more seriously?

  Because they are more violent and personal
• How might the same type of crime be treated differently according to Marxists influenced by labelling theory?

  Based on the social class of the perpetrator
• What was the judge's consideration in the case of the Oxford medical student who stabbed her boyfriend?

  Not giving her a custodial sentence
• What influenced the judge's decision regarding the Oxford medical student?

  Her "extraordinary talent"
• What is a criticism of Marxist explanations for crime and deviance?

  They are reductionist
• What do post-modernists believe about the influences on behavior?

  There are many important influences
• What is the irony noted by left realists regarding crime victims?

  Most victims are working class
• Why do feminists criticize Marxist accounts?

  Women are largely absent from them
• What is the relationship between crime severity and state treatment?

  Proletarian crimes are seen as more serious
• What does labelling theory suggest about crime treatment?

  It varies by the perpetrator's social class