What is the Marxist theory of crime?

Table of Contents:

1. What is the Marxist theory of crime?
2. What is the instrumental theory?
3. What is the Marxist view of the law?
4. What is the cornerstone of the Marxist explanation of crime?
5. What is Red China?
6. What caused the Chinese civil war?

What is the Marxist theory of crime?

Marxists argue that the economic system of capitalism itself causes crime. The whole system is based on the exploitation of the working class by the ruling class, leading to the ever-increasing wealth of one class and ever-increasing poverty of the other.

What is the instrumental theory?

Instrumental Marxism, or elite model, is a theory which reasons that policy makers in government and positions of power tend to "share a common business or class background, and that their decisions will reflect their business or class interests".

What is the Marxist view of the law?

Marxist materialist theories relegate law to the ideological social superstructure and present law as an epiphenomenal and derivative tool harnessed for unequal, oppressive and ideological purposes.

What is the cornerstone of the Marxist explanation of crime?

From a Marxist perspective, crime is inevitable because capitalism is criminogenic; it causes crime. How does capitalism cause crime? - Poverty may result in crime as it is the only way the working class can survive.

What is Red China?

Red China may refer to: Communist-controlled China (1927–49), territories held during the Chinese Civil War. People's Republic of China. China during the Cultural Revolution.

What caused the Chinese civil war?

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1951, because of a difference in thinking between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT). The war was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. ... About two million Chinese fled to Taiwan in late 1949.