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The American radical criminology Richard Quinney argued that 'criminal definitions describe behaviours that conflict with the interests of segments of society that have the power to shape public policy'. What does this mean?


A) Criminal law is an instrument of the state and ruling class to maintain and perpetuate the existing social and economic order.
B) everyone has the right to vote for policies that are advantageous to them
C) Crime control in capitalist society is accomplished through a variety of institutions and agencies established and administered by a governmental elite, representing ruling class interests, for the purpose of establishing domestic order.
D) The contradictions of advanced capitalism - the disjunction between existence and essence - require that the subordinate classes remain oppressed by whatever means necessary, especially through the coercion and violence of the legal system.

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