ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Squeegee, Structural Marxism, Bourgeoisie

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-121
• Professor: ortega

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Marx: class conflict under capitalism, also reflected in law. Instrumental marxism: the bourgeoisie wins because their interests are protected. Examples: squeegee kids (interests of middle class commuters, and middle class ideas about work), vagrancy laws (interests of factory owners). Western & pettit (imprisonment policies), pager (mark of a criminal record), uggen & manza (felon disenfranchisement). Look at what laws are followed or avoided. Structural marxism: there is inequality internal to the system. Repeat players in the system do better than one shotters (galanter) Durkheim instead of class division, focus on what keeps society together . Marx looks at class conflict while durkheim looks at cohesion example: punishment. A) expression of the conscience collective: often violent and passionate, reinforces the conscience collective, and society. Community service? (doob and marinos: re emergence of shame punishments . Stigmatizing publicity communicates the offender"s status to a wider audience. Literal stigmatization is the stamping of an offender with a mark or symbol that invites ridicule.