Question

Identify and discuss the chief criticisms of Marxist theory of crime. In what ways has Marxist theory made an important contribution to criminology?

Answer 1

Marxist theory of crime proposes four areas where the crime is looked in favour of the wealthy.
Firstly, the capitalist society spreads crime because of its inequality among the classes.
Secondly, law supports the rich because they are able to pay to get out of the crime.
Thirdly, it's not just poor people but rich people also commit crimes. The crime committed by poor are for their livelihood thus it is inexpensive but the crime committed by the rich are the result of their greediness and arrogance thus making it very costly.
Finally, the police always monitor and catch the low class people in the society but not the rich. This is a big discrimination.

These four concepts still hold water. The essence is that law favours only the rich but tries to haunt the poor. Even the police and authorities are afraid to get involved in the cases of rich. In most of the countries rich people are able to get away with their crime by bribing the authorities, whereas the poor hasn't got any money even to fight their case.