SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Dna Database, Gary Marx
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Individuals engaged in crime have low social control, hirschi and gottfredson, even if them stop commiting crime they will demonstrate it in other ways. Specific deterrence is really effective when you talk about a certain class of crime, not very effective when it comes to crimes of passion, the rational calculation in crimes of passion that you need for specific deterrence doesn"t occur. Specific deterrence works when it comes to cost calculation (e. g. speeding tickets), cost-benefit actor calculation is effective. White collar offenders, specific deterrence can be effective, cost-benefit calculation. White collar crime, stings do not refer to what police officers do, in white collar crimes stings and swindle refers to getting your money through a jam. Ways in which social control can contribute to deviance generally. Gary marx, begins with a critical proposition that comes from labelling theory, he notes that social control creates the problem it is designed to eliminate.
