CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Lumpenproletariat, Industrial Revolution
10 Mar 2014
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The history of all existing society is the history of class struggle . Someone who embezzles money or doesn"t declare all of their taxes often receives a much more severe sentence than someone who steals worth of merchandise. Canadians are 18 times more likely to be murdered than to die from a work-related illness or injury. Laws aren"t good for everybody, but they are for people with money. The law in both its codification and its application is not neutral but reflects the interest of and benefits the powerful segments of society. The law is the codification of dominant social values and its application functions to benefit the majority. Macro approach: focus on the large scale structures of society. Critical theory: questions existing social arrangements. Some behaviours in society are deemed deviant because people in power are said so. Economic system of wage-labour and commodity production for sale and profit.
