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Critically evaluate Marxist approaches to crime and deviance.
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Critically evaluate Marxist approaches to crime and deviance Marxism became increasingly influential in sociology during the 1970's, partly due to the failure of functionalism that promised to provide answers that functionalists failed to provide. Marxism sees society based on an economic infrastructure that incorporates the relations of production and means of production. The other aspects of society, known as the superstructure is based on top of this infrastructure and are determined by it. They see society containing basic contradictions, which means that they cannot survive in their existing form. (Which involves the exploitation of one social group by another.) They see this exploitation to disappear once a revolution occurs, where everyone will be liberated and will be free from oppression. Classical Marxism, being a structural approach, shares common assumptions with functionalists such as they accept official statistics and that the working class become criminals, but see capitalism as brutalising the working...
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