Notes on Marx 2

Who is doing the definition of what is crime? The State is apparatus of the ruling class Examples Dealing with protest Peterloo Massacre State Violence Paris Commune 1872 Judges and trade union law Stripping away trade unions immunities Violence against strikers

Marx Class and Crime

Social Background of Judges Interpretation of the Law Freedom of the individual the firm becomes

an individual protect property Strikes infringements of the Individual Maintaining law and order Protection of Property Rights Crime related to Structure of Capitalism Alienated Labour People as commodities

Politics of the Judiciary

Race and crime in the USA Stop and Search in the UK White Collar Crime Insider trading in financial markets MPs recent allowances scandal Who makes the Law

Criminalisation

Classical capitalism or a new capitalism Class solidarity and fragmentation of class Objective view of class Concept of middle class America Poverty Welfare and the Under Class Bauman on Fluid Modernity

Relevance of Marx in 2009