Marxist View of Crime

• Socialisation

  During childhood and adulthood, we are socialised by a variety of different agencies; these agencies are working together to promote capitalist values to ensure the population maintains them.
• Socialisation

  Marxists believe that the bourgeoisie have the power to ensure that certain activities are seen as acceptable and others are seen as wrong even if they have similar consequences.
• Crimogenic

  Capitalism encourages individuals to pursue self-interest rather than public duty. 
• Crimogenic

  Capitalism encourages individuals to be materialistic consumers, making us aspire to an unrealistic and often unattainable lifestyle.
• Crimogenic

  Capitalism generates massive inequality and poverty, conditions which are correlated with higher crime rates.
• Laws reflect capitalist ideology

  Low creation is all based on the ruling classes and what they dictate to be important.
• Laws reflect capitalist ideology

  They do this through manipulation of values where they pass loss ensure their values are seen as the most important and using pressure groups where they use covert pressure groups to lobby the government into changing their minds about certain issues.