5. Traditional Marxism

• 1. Criminogenic Capitalism
• 2. The State and law Making
• 3. Selective Enforcement
• 4. Ideological Functions of Crime and Law
• 5. Evaluation

• Capitalism causes crime because it exploits WC
• 1. Poverty means crime is the only way they can survive
• 2. Utilitarian crimes are caused by advertising
• 3. Alienation of WC leads to frustration / non-utilitarian crime
• 4. Competitive nature of capitalism leads to White Collar Crime

David Gordon - crime is rational response to capitalism and therefore found in all classes

• 1. do not reflect value consensus - serve interest of capitalist class
• 2. Chambliss - British East African Countries
• -plantations needed local labour
• -local economy was not based on money
• -introduced tax payable in cash, made it illegal not to do so, forcing them to work.

Jeffery Reiman - Rich get Richer, Poor get Prison

• 1. Frank Pearce - Health and safety is just to keep workers fit for work. Create 'false conciousness'
• 2. W.G.Carson - 200 firms, all had broken h+s laws. 1.5% prosecuted.
• Law is selective, workers blame criminals amongst them, not upper/middle class.

• 1. Link between ethnicity / gender?
• 2. deterministic
• 3. some capitalist societies have low crime rate (Japan and Switzerland) - but have great welfare systems
• 4. Corporate crime prosecution does occur
• 5. Ignores 'intra-class' crime.