CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Restorative Justice, White-Collar Crime, Structural Marxism
Document Summary
Instrumental marxism: structural marxism, criticism of the marxist approach. Marxist have a problem: this is because they target the weak and the powerless; help the ruling class with better tools, better policy implications. Marxist criminology is one kind of critical and conflict theory *focus on class bias: context of conflict theory: 1960"s and early 1970. Vs. individual as unit of analysis (e. g. bad apple theory) There was a lot of political protest, conflict theory flourished and challenged the legitimacy of the government and it helped challenge the governments legitimacy of application and creation of law. Self-report studies: there was a distribution of crime that varied across the social classes; this was a shock because this report study was not found in police studies. The reason why the lower classes are creating more crime is through the discriminatory actions rather than the different classes; mechanism for controlling the lower classes.
