Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance

Spitzer, Steven

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“…In his threat perspective on social control, Spitzer (1975) argues that deviants are socially constructed from groups who create specific problems for those who rule. The most important function of systems of class control is the regulation and management of problem populations who threaten the social relations of production in capitalist societies.…”

Section: The Interaction Of Unemployment and Racementioning

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Race, economy and punishment: inequity and racial disparity in imprisonment, 1972–2002

Jackson

2013

Criminal Justice Studies

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Guided by the Rusche and Kirchheimer thesis, this study examines variation in incarceration rates across states. Time-series regression analysis is applied to 30 years of state-level data to examine how economic factors interact with aggregate measures of race/ethnicity in predicting rates of incarceration. The analysis indicates that income inequality, not unemployment, is the most salient predictor of incarceration rates. That is, state-level measures of income inequality exert a strong, positive effect on state-level incarceration rates, and this effect is particularly salient in the presence of higher percentages of African-Americans.

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Section: The Interaction Of Unemployment and Racementioning

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“…They become eligible for management as deviant when they disturb the capitalist order. To ensure the stability of capitalism, the state is forced to take a direct role in the management of problem populations considered most threatening (Spitzer, 1975).…”

Section: The Interaction Of Unemployment and Racementioning

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Race, economy and punishment: inequity and racial disparity in imprisonment, 1972–2002

Jackson

2013

Criminal Justice Studies

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“…One approach to explaining variations in crime control is the conflict perspective (Turk 1969, Chambliss and Seidman 1971, Spitzer 1975, Quinney 1977, Jackson 1989, Liska 1992. This perspective views the criminal justice system as a tool used to protect social elites.…”

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“…Specifically, the residential segregation of blacks into urban ghettos lessens the likelihood of interracial victimizations of whites and simultaneously increases the likelihood of intraracial victimizations of blacks. Thus, based on the benign neglect hypothesis, one would predict that the segregation of racial minorities would reduce reliance on more overt and formal mechanisms of social control (Blauner 1972, Spitzer 1975.…”

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Aggregation bias and the benign neglect hypothesis

Myer

Chamlin

2011

Journal of Crime and Justice

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The results from prior examinations of the benign neglect hypothesis are mixed. The current research seeks to determine the extent to which aggregation bias can account for these inconsistencies. Guided by insights from the policing literature, characteristics of the social contexts of police districts in a Midwestern city are used to explore the relationship between racial conflict and police behavior. The results from autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) analyses of the influence of a race riot on arrests fail to produce evidence of benign neglect at the city level. However, when data are disaggregated to the police district level of analysis evidence of benign neglect is found in the area of the city where the least powerful, black residents reside. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Marx, Karl

Stretesky¹,

Lynch²

2014

The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology

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The work of Karl Marx (1818–1883) has had a significant impact on the development of radical criminology. Marx's approach assumes each economic system develops a unique class structure that shapes life chances and is tied to social, political, and economic power. The class structure also has implications for social control as well as the definition and causes of crime. Radical criminology has garnered significant theoretical attention and empirical support, though it is often neglected in contemporary criminology.

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Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance

Cited by 312 publications

References 10 publications

Race, economy and punishment: inequity and racial disparity in imprisonment, 1972–2002

Race, economy and punishment: inequity and racial disparity in imprisonment, 1972–2002

Aggregation bias and the benign neglect hypothesis

Marx, Karl

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