CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Surplus Labour, Mens Rea, Crime Prevention
Document Summary
Marxist criminology essentially sees crime as an outcome of the class divisions of society. Power and inequality are thus key elements to understanding and responding to crime. The state tends to treat certain behaviour of the working class more generally as more. This is done by legitimatizing unequal relations and maintaining control over those who are. The casual element of crime is institutionalized in inequality (or unequal class relations), the. Definition of crime tends not to incorporate certain aspects of behaviour of the ruling class that. Working class people tend to fall into crime due to subsistence struggle; they are seeking to intervention characterizes social harm survive. Crimes by the ruling class is carried out for the purpose of generating greater wealth accumulation. Marxist thus think that the nature and extent of social harm carried out by the powerful need to be exposed.
