marxism explanations

• selective lawmaking


  Chambliss- capitalism needs laws, protecting private properties, which is criminal laws rights of property before people

  Snider- capitalist, reluctant into personal law that threaten profitability state doesn’t want to alienate large companies

  Eval- Durkheim testing
• ideology and social control

  Box – crime definition, constructed by rich, such as murder company negligence

  Althusser- ideological state operators, informal his family

  Repressive state operated is formal such as police that short warning
• law breaking


  Gordon – capitalism, criminal journey, working class commit due to poverty and upper-class due to profit maximisation

  Snider- corporate crime cost more than street crime but the rich get caught less

  Chambliss- greed, self interest caused by capitalism which leads to increase crime in both areas. Law do whatever they can such as mugging on high, do anything for more share
• corporate crime, example


  Bhopal disaster- company, planted, leaked and killed dozens and illnesses spread, but got no charge

  Johnson Johnson talcum powder – led to cancer and paid £18.8 million fine

  Pepsi palm oil – 450 palm, oil and Pepsi
• why break the law?

  Gordon, – capitalism generates crime due to greed such as ad advertising, for example, the apprentice show

  BP, Deepwater Horizon – oil spin in the Gulf of Mexico and boiling the ocean, affected many animals and people

  Pfizer price fixing – charged very high prices for drugs which led to £70 million fine
• selective law enforcement


  Gordon – benefits capitalism as they blame it on the working class

  Chambliss- S&R

  Milliband- judges from background off ruling class side with the upper classes because they afford the best lawyer

  Slapper & Tombs- prosecution of TNC’s sure that powerful can get away with it such as BP

  Box – starts and police presence, working class criminal

  Eval- cicourel- law, selective due to stereotypes, not capitalism
• Neo, Marxist


  CCCS- Jefferson, Hebdige, Clarke

  Hall- mugging

  Cohen- mods and rockers
• evaluation


  Ignore gender

  Focus on crimes by the power