Marxism In Criminal Justice Essay

From my point of view, I agree with what Christie says about the modern law. It is important that throughout the process of a conflict, the story from the victim should be heard even when it is not related to the law. The conflict is like the property, where “the conflict itself that represents the most interesting property taken away” (ARTICLE CITATION – PAGE 7). Victims are the people who are involved, the court should hear the story from victim’s point of view, instead of allowing professionals or the state to fully take over and judge from the relativity to a case. According to Christie, professionals are particularly good at stealing conflicts, especially lawyers. They are trained to bring the best arguments for their clients and keep quiet about anything that

The first one is segmentation in space and the second one is re-establishment of caste-society. I have found a relation between both segmentation and the Marxism system. The Marxism is a part of the modern law where it is “an economic and social system based on the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels” (What is Marxism? – double check). They both share the idea of where class struggle is the main issue in Western societies’ social change. According to Christie, one of the consequences is “a depersonalization of social life” (PAGE 6). The society no longer comes together, but slowly draw farther with one another. We only rely on each other when we are in situations where we need each other for both parties’ benefits. The relationship between people are slowly weakened and the goal in our society becomes gaining power instead of building each other up. This is an unfortunate factor that I agree strongly with Christie, we should not be judging one another according to their social status