2007CCJ Crime, Capitalism and Legitimacy Crisis

The aim of critical criminology is to...

• Transform Society by ensuring that power needs to be more evenly distributed

• Transform Society by educating more children so they can have a voice

• Transform Society by ensuring that money is distributed

• Transform Society by cleaning up neighbourhoods

Marxist Criminologists argued that there were two types of crime:

• Corporate Crime

• Petty Crime

• Structural Crime

• Serious Crime

The force of production include: (2 answers)

• Technology

• Communication

• Management

• Material resources

Marx believed that societies could best be understood through the way they distribute resources necessary for living and survival.

• True

• False

The classes involved in Marx's capitalist theories are:

• Proletariat

• Aristocrat

• Bourgeoisie

• Peasant

William Chambliss argued that due to the norms being controlled by the individuals in power the consequences were:

• Differential Enforcement

• Equal Enforcement

• Organised Enforcement

• Selective Enforcement

Which of the below is NOT a criticism of Marxist criminology?

• Early Marxist criminology tended to highlight the role of social class as a form of power, but ignore issues of race and ethnicity, gender, and so on

• Oversimplification of social conflict  to issue of social class, often in very deterministic ways

• There are differences in the control of power and money but Marxist criminology makes them the same

• Wide differences and disagreements about the definition of “power”

Marx wrote lots of articles regarding his opionions on crime

• True

• False

Hegel argued history has no purpose, that it is an unintelligible process moving towards a specific condition

• True

• False

Marx argued that industrial capitalism alienated workers in four ways: (Pick Two)

• Alienation from compassion

• Alientation from humanity

• Alienation from the act of working

• Alientation from human potential