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Evaluate Marxist explanations of deviance (50 marks) Despite the fact that Karl Marx wrote very little about crime, the Marxist approach has been one of the most important approaches in explaining deviant behaviour. Marxists mainly base their ideas and theories upon how the ruling class control society. They say that the high rate of crime in western capitalist societies represents a protest against alienation and powerlessness. Capitalism is a competitive ideology; people are encouraged to become aggressive and hostile. In such a society, criminal behaviour is understandable. Steven Box argues for the Marxist approach to crime and control. Box agrees with more right wing writers in that it is release from social control that propels people into committing crime. However, his starting point is not that people are essentially bad, but that capitalist society controls and exploits workers for its own ends, or rather, for the benefit of...

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