SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Feminist Theory, Welfare Fraud, Surplus Labour
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Older assumptions typically assume the law represented the collective will of the people was rejected, will is given up, collective will is seen as a ideological fabrication. 4- crime figures- represent criminal behaviour, marxist argue they reflected labelling or legal processes that define whos criminal. Argued about various propositions, from this perspective, acts are defined as criminal, its not that ppl are innately criminal they are defined as criminal, laws that define criminal behaviour. As capitalist socities industrialize, the gap increases between the wealthy and the working class, penal law will expand in an effort to coerce the proletariat into submission. Crime reduces surplus labour by creating employment not only for the criminals by for law enforcers, Crime is a reality which exists only as it is created by those in the society whose interests are served by its prescence. There is the visa that we have equal rights,