SOC225 Lecture Notes - Corporate Crime, Political Crime, White-Collar Crime
7 Mar 2014
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Labelling theories see crime as created by an individual. Things are not always as they seem, society increasingly seen not so much as one homogenous mixture of institutions and people but realized the pluralism and competing interests and social differences of peoples in societies. Views crime as an outcome and reflection of basic class divisions in society; key concepts are power and inequality. Analyzes power as it becomes increasingly concentrated into fewer and fewer hands growing inequality. The ruling class societies elites, the top of the top have all the power and wealth. They wield the ultimate power as they own the means of production. This class dictates the nature and the shape of society; the state functions to support the interests of capitalism and capitalists. Focuses on how class situation is linked to specific types of criminality (eg. street crime vs. suite crime ) Crimes of subsistence crimes commited by the marginalised trying to simply sustain themselves in society.
