CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: White-Collar Crime, Double Standard, Social Inequality

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Morality and crime part 1 (week 3 jan 24) Moved from the deviant side of the spectrum to the criminal. Normalization of deviance: used to understand corporate and white collar crime, definition: process which deviant aspects of behaviour/ activity are minimized and downplayed with the result that this behaviour/activity is not defined as a crime. Both can be applied to understand amplification and normalization. Constructionist: views the status of behaviours/practices of social problems because of social construction: these behaviours are defined as problem die to their perceived harm vs. objective harm, a realm of perception. Links between the process of social construction and the wider social, political, and economic context in which this process takes place. The legal boundaries between crime and deviance reflect prevailing forms of power, conflict, and social inequality. Anything that poses a threat to society is seen as immoral.