“Why is it that a high percent

“Why is it that a high percentage of crime is committed by members of the under and working classes?”

This question asks us to deal with the reasons why there seems to be a trend in society where by the working and under classes seem to represent a high percentage of the over all crime statistics, and asks us to give an explanation to answer this.

I would like examine the Marxist view point to begin with, since this view point in my opinion, gives the fullest and most adequate answer possible in trying to explain continual working class crime.

It is first necessary to look at the social-macro before dealing with the social-micro of crime, I say this on the basis that all Marxist theory is based on a social-macro principle, which is that the ruling classes oppress all subordinate classes for there own economic gain. Marxist believe that the ruling classes are able to do this through their ownership of the means of production, although there is a whole philosophy which deals with explaining this assumption, this essay is not concerned with that, but what does need to be dealt wit

“Most crimes in this country share a single important similarity – they

Thus in conclusion although I in principle see the Marxist perspective as maybe the most legitimate reasoning for why working class crime continues to exist, I feel that some Marxist writers go to great length to justify rather than explain why working class crime is a trend, the theory as far as I am concerned rivals any other which has been produced, Parsons view that society is a meritocracy and a value consensus system to me nether seems to be the case, and doesn’t explain why the same class keep braking the law.

Some topics in this essay:
David Gordon, Critical Writing, Western Europe-Keynesian, Pierre Bourdieu, Milton Mankoff, class crime, Western Europe, welfare system, Chambliss Mankoff, Julia Jary, capitalist society, workers variable, minimum wage, rational response, Haralambos Holborn, Dictionary Sociology, gain economic capital, capital means, chambliss argues, due nature, gain economic,