LS403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White-Collar Crime, Neoliberalism, Embezzlement
11 Aug 2017
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Product of era you are living in as well as the environment. How it acts on you result of social and economic systems that structure your. Legal pluralism should pay attention to other orders of doing law because we may be controlled by other orders that we don"t recognize as legal. What other orders might look like legal systems. Construction of victim and offender is neoliberal. Critique that the state is the sole provider of law. else safe. Even indigenous law gets picked up in ways that benefit the neoliberal state. People construct the laws in ways that benefit them. Not all crimes are equal (white collar crime, property/violent crimes) some. Hierarchal construction of why we want to rank the terribleness of certain crimes constructed as worse than others. crimes seen through punishment. How we construct the idea of what we think is criminal has important implications about how our society functions as a whole.
