neo marxism

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Neo marxism

  • adapting Marx’s ideas

  • Do not see wc as passive

  • Wc choose crime political act against the bourgeoisie

  • Taylor, Walton and young

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Taylor eat all agree with traditional Marxists that

  • capitalism is based on exploration and inequality

  • State makes and enforces laws

  • Capitalism should be replaced

  • However traditional Marxism is too deterministic - they claim that crime is caused by external factors eg anomie, blocked opportunities

  • They take a voluntaristic view - conscious choice

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Fully social theory of deviance

  • comprehensive understanding would help change society for the better

  • 6 aspects

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6 aspects

  1. Wider origins of tbe deviant act - structure of society

  2. The immediate origins of deviant act - structure macro background

  3. The act itself - immediate cause of the deviant act

  4. The immediate origins of social reaction - society’s reaction to act

  5. Effects of labelling - impact of the reaction (individuals and society)

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Evaluation

  • feminists - gender bias and focus on male criminality

  • Left realists - romanticises wc crime and ignores the effects on wc victims

  • Burke - too general, too idealistic

  • Taylor, Walton and young have now changed their views