SOC 2700 Lecture : conflict theories
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This causes some factories to become very heavily mechanised and call for less human manual labour. A significant amount of workers then become marginalized and are forced to take lower paying jobs. This may cause people to commit crimes: modern day theorists are essentially saying that capitalism creates criminal behavior in a non direct way. There is a surplus of labour, people with no jobs or very low paying jobs. The rich get richer and the poor get prison : capitalism demoralizes the person leading to crime. Other approaches of contemporary marxists: conditions in capitalism generate crime: reaction to deprivation thesis y says that problems in society are caused by capitalists, corporations and systems are involved. Structural marxist: law and justice system are tools for the elites to get and maintain what they want: law preserves capitalism but the elite class is not a coherent group.