by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Marxism & Deviance
Find answers to the following: What is meant by the term ‘white-collar crime’? What is ‘corporate crime’? Find three examples of corporate crime. What is ‘occupational crime’? Find three examples of occupational crime. How might it be argued that white-collar crime is...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Marxism & Deviance
A group of Marxist sociologists from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University produced several studies of youth culture in the 1980s. They argued that: The ruling class imposes its values on the rest of society through hegemony via the...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Marxism & Deviance
Identify one imaginary criminal act, such as stealing a mobile phone or bike, selling drugs, or burglary. Now show how it could be analysed using Taylor’s framework. What are the wider origins of the act (for example, economic or social circumstances)? What are the...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Marxism & Deviance
Question 1: Why do you think the crimes of the powerful are ‘under-policed, rarely prosecuted or punished’? Question 2: Why should ‘little or no state welfare provision’ lead to higher crime rates?
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Marxism & Deviance
Causing or leading to crime. It produces poverty, so the poor turn to crime to meet their basic needs; advertising fuels the desire for goods that people cannot afford; capitalism encourages success at all costs among capitalists; it produces alienation among workers,...
