2.1 Traditional & Neo-Marxism

• What is a fully social theory of deviance?

  Comprehensive understanding of crime and deviance with Marxist ideas about unequal wealth distribution & interactionist ideas about the meaning of the deviant act for the actor
• Who made 'a fully social theory of deviance'?

  Young & Taylor
• What do Taylor et al disagree with Marxists about? What do they think instead?


  -Too deterministic not all are utilitarian

  -Take a more voluntaristic view, we have free will
• What do Neo Marxists believe?

  -Focus on the process of criminalisation

  -Differs from labelling theory as it examines the process of criminalisation in the wider role of the state
• What are 2 criticisms of traditional Marxism?

  -Only focuses on class

  -Too deterministic
• What are a strength of traditional marxism?

  Real life application (Bhopal, Rana Plaza etc)
• What do Marxists think about Law Enforcement?

  -The enforcement of law is biased

  -Selective enforcement supports the capitalist system
• What did Snider say about ruling class crime?


  -Crime is committed in every segment of society, despite the underrepresentation of ruling class crime in statistics

  -Book- "the rich get richer & the poor get prison"
• What did Chambliss say about Law Creation?


  Law reflects the interests of the ruling class like protecting property
• What did Gordon about Criminal Motivation?


  -Crime is caused by the inequalities of capitalist society & based upon the generation of profit

  -The system generates competition
• What are the 4 views on crime of traditional Marxists?

  Criminal Motivation

  Law Creation

  Ruling Class Crime

  Law Enforcement
• Criminogenic

  Causing or likely to cause criminal behaviour
• What are 2 criticisms of Neo marxism?

  Feminists, 'gender blind', focus on male criminality

  Too general to explain crime