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Outline and evaluate Marxist theories of crime.
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Outline and evaluate Marxist theories of crime. Marxist theorists began to make new and challenging claims about the cause of crime and deviance. They focus on the link between those in the ruling class and their involvement with crime. However, they never really managed to prove their ideas on the link between crime and capitalism upon which all their theories are based. US Marxists, including William Chambliss and Frank Pearce took over from the labelling theory and began to develop their own theories of crime. They have made four specific criticisms of labelling theorists work believing that they themselves could do a far better job. One criticism is that the labelling theory fails to explain why people actually break the law; they gave no explanation of primary deviation. A second criticism is that when Cicourel uses the term 'typical delinquent' to explain the type of person the police are ore likely...
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