SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Conflict Theories
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Any behaviour, belief or condition that violates social norms: crime is at one end of the deviance continuum, the relativity of deviance. It is not the act itself, but the social reactions to the act that make it deviant http://www. cbc. ca/news/canada/manitoba/pot-possession- incidents-1. 3247653: sociologists are interested in. The criminal justice system is an instrument of social control and oppression. Crime and deviance defined by those in power. How crime is defined maintains the interests of those in power: white collar crime vs street crime. Crimes committed by people of high social status such as: Very costly in terms of lives lost and injury. Much less likely to be prosecuted, or even treated as crimes. Http://www. nytimes. com/2014/05/04/magazine/only- one-top-banker-jail-financial-crisis. html?_r=0: symbolic interactionist perspectives, differential association theory of crime. Happens when people are exposed to subcultures or groups that normalize criminal behavior: labeling theory. Labels affect people"s own perceptions of themselves and others" expectations and perceptions of them.
