Marxism

• Box

  • Law are selectively enforced - only on the working class, the ruling class is ignored
  • Certain selections of society and their alums are criminalised
  • A process of mystification where ruling class criminality is ignored
• Chambliss

  • Organised crime is controlled by the elite - the police / politicians
  • Police spent time on minor crime
• Gordon

  • Crime is a rational response to capitalism
  • Crime is committed by all classes, but working class is over represented in statistics
  • Crime = working class problem this distracts from white collar crime and justifies strong law enforcement
• Pearce

  • Organised crime = Larger scale than working class
  • Crime works ideologically - laws make capitalism look ‘caring’ for example health and safety laws