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Crime & Deviance
Sociological Views on Crime & Deviance
Overall Evaluation of Marxist Explanations
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What do Marxist explanations for crime and deviance tend to reduce everything to?
Economics
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What do post-modernists argue about society in relation to Marxist explanations?
Society is complex and
fragmented
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What do realist sociologists accuse Marxists of regarding criminals?
Presenting
criminals as the real
victims
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According to left realists, who are most victims of crime?
Working class
individuals
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What do feminists note about Marxist and neo-Marxist accounts?
Women
are largely absent from them
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Why are men more likely to commit crimes than women?
This is addressed in the
social distribution
of crime by gender
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How are proletarian crimes treated compared to bourgeois crimes?
Proletarian
crimes are treated
more seriously
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Why might the state treat proletarian crimes more seriously?
Because they are more
violent
and personal
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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
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What was the judge's consideration in the case of the Oxford medical student who stabbed her boyfriend?
Not giving her a
custodial
sentence
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What influenced the judge's decision regarding the Oxford medical student?
Her "
extraordinary
talent"
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What is a criticism of Marxist explanations for crime and deviance?
They are
reductionist
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What do post-modernists believe about the influences on behavior?
There are many important influences
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What is the irony noted by left realists regarding crime victims?
Most victims are
working class
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Why do feminists criticize Marxist accounts?
Women
are largely absent from them
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What is the relationship between crime severity and state treatment?
Proletarian
crimes are seen as more serious
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What does labelling theory suggest about crime treatment?
It varies by the
perpetrator's
social class
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