SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blue-Collar Worker, Embezzlement, Kenneth Lay
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Consensus perspective: law emerges to embody and reflect the strong, majority sentiment of the population. Conflict perspective: law reflects successful actions by certain groups with enough power to legislate according to their own interests. Consensus vs. conflict: consensus perspective, conflict perspective: Chambliss, 1964 traced the origin of vagrancy laws to england in the. Social power: the ability to make choices by virtue of control over political, economic, or social resources: powerful people (or organizations) often define standards for deviance and the law. White-collar crime: people with power get to promote their version of social norms. Edwin sutherland (1883-1950: american sociologist, differential association theory, coined the term "white-collar crime, crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation, could refer to companies, corporations and industries. Offender-based definition: high status, power, respectability, importance of status and position.
