Neo-Marxist Theory of Crime

Gilroy - Black Criminality

Argues that Black criminality is a myth and constructed. This is because ethnic minorities can be understood as a political act of resistance to racism and inequality

• References anti-colonial struggles

• Focuses on agency; crime is not simply caused by poverty but can be resistance 

• e.g Stop and Search 

Hall et al - Policing the crisis

suggests that the creation of moral panica and folk devils is a for of diverting the attention of masses

Taylor, Walton, and Young - Full social theory of crime

• Wider origins of the deviant act

• Immediate origins of the deviant act

• The act itself and its meaning

• Immediate origins of social reaction 

• Wider origins of social reaction 

• Impact of social reactions on future behaviour 

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