CRM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Communist Manifesto, Class Conflict, Homicide
14 Mar 2018
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Historical and social context surrounding the emergence of marxist criminology. **reminder: your essays are due in 2 weeks! Appreciate how marxist perspectives emerged as a reaction to the proliferation of industrialization and capitalism. Appreciate how marxist criminology became popular in the latter part of the 20th century. Outline the basic concepts of marxist criminology. Analyze current examples using a marxist criminology perspective. Critically evaluate the strengths, limitations, assumptions, and implications. Lived in an era of unfettered development of industrialization and capitalist expansion. Developed historical materialism": a theory of society that frames historical development around class conflict and economic changes. Everything else (culture, laws, customs) are determined by the base and therefore are superstructure. Notable works: das kapital (1867); the communist manifesto (1848) Based on this socioeconomic context, marx believed that: Capitalist method of producing material goods was oppressive. Economic conditions of capitalism had put workers at the mercy of their employers; but we have seen this kind of oppression before.
