SOCI 388 Chapter Notes - Chapter Final: Radical Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Recreational Vehicle
27 Aug 2018
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Main purpose: a comparison of crime in the upper/white-collar class and crime in the lower class. Comparison is made for the purpose of developing the theories of criminal behavior. Main thesis: conception and explanations of crime are misleading and incorrect crime is not closely related to poverty. Misrepresentations of asset values: fraud, swindling. They violate trust and create distrust, which lowers social morale and produces social disorganizations on a large scale: criterion of white-collar crimes. Other agencies than the criminal court must be included. Behavior which would have a reasonable expectancy of conviction is tried in a criminal court or substitute agency should be defined as criminal i. e. convictability, rather than actual conviction, should be the criterion. Behavior should be defined as criminal if conviction is avoided because of pressure which is brought to bear on the court or substitute agency.
