Labelling theory argues that criminal and deviant acts are a result of labelling by authorities – and the powerless are more likely to be negatively labelled.
Marxist Criminologists argue that the costs of elite crime are greater than the costs of street-crime, yet the elite are
In 2013 Kweku Adeboli was jailed for 7 years for committing the biggest White Collar fraud in UK history. This
To be updated soon….. All of the material below takes you to evidence that broadly supports two ideas held by
Covering crimogenic capitalism, selective law enforcement and the ideological functions of crime control
Introduction/ The basics Subcultural Theory explains deviance in terms of a deviant group, split apart from the rest of the
Introduction/ The basics Durkheim’s Functionalist Theory Hirschi’s Social Control/ Bonds of Attachment Theory Merton’s Strain Theory Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT)
Consensus theories generally see crime as unusual, dysfunctional and believe something has ‘gone wrong’ for the people who commit crime.
They marxist theory of crime focuses on how crime is a ‘natural outgrowth of the capitalist system and how the criminal justice system works for the benefits of elites and against the lower social classes.
In the aftermath of England’s ‘summer of violent disorder’ in 2011, the British Prime Minister David Cameron was unequivocal in