Neo-Marxists

• Critical (racial) criminology

  • w/c class making an active effort to break the law->> may have been a positive political act against the bourgeoisie
  • ->>political activism
• Young and Taylor

  The New Criminology (1976)->> 'fully social theory of deviance' where marxist should consider

  • structure of society/ where power resides
  • macro background of deviance
  • immediate cause of deviance and act
  • impact of said act
  • societal reaction
  • impact of reaction
• Hall

  • applied critical criminology to black muggers in the '70s approach (UK)
  • crisis of capitalism (economic recession)->> in the rise of unemployment that disproportionately affected black people, they chose a life of crime rather than white subservience
  • ruling class->> white vs back w/c to prevent political activism
  • moral panic->> prevented radical political change
• Neo-Marxist evaluation and critical criminology

  • only a small proportion of crime should be seen a politically motivated
  • left realist->> most victims are w/c= marxist should look for a solution to crime
  • many said Hall's theory was a conspiracy->> no real proof of this + moral panic mostly had a financial gain in selling newspapers