Assess the usefulness of Marxist approaches in explaining the causes and the extent of ethnic-minority offending in society.

... Assess the usefulness of Marxist approaches in explaining the causes and the extent of ethnic-minority offending in society. An area which sociologists and criminologists alike have researched and studied extensively is that of the rates of ethnic minorities offending in society, and the causes of their offending. This comes as no surprise as official statistics show that black people are over three times more likely to be arrested than white people, whilst Asian people's rates of arrest are similar to those for white people. One Marxist approach in explaining the causes and the extent of ethnic-minority offending in society is Stuart Hall's. Hall et al. (1978) argued that the late 1970s were a period of crisis for British Capitalism. There was political unrest and there was a collapse in the economy. As a result, Hall claims, the British press turned their attention to the crime on our streets. They used

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