SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Restorative Justice, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Jpmorgan Chase
6 Jun 2018
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21st Century Panopticon
● Social media
Deviance
● Standing vs. kneeling for national anthem
○ SymIn would talk about players’ emotional connections to police brutality →
actual emotions of players and reason behind their actions
Crime: Extending the Conflict Perspective
→ Law means through which people protect their power?
→ How does power shape institutions we have?
→ How do elites use power to protect/justify privilege?
White Collar Crime
● Pay for justice
Types of White Collar Crime
● Bribery, bank fraud, blackmail, embezzlement, etc.
● Difficult to prosecute because more than one person
● Difficult because people are powerful and wealthy
● Channeled through different branch of the criminal justice system
Corporate Crime
Going After the Corporation
● BP and the US DOJ settled on a $20.8B relating to the deepwater horizon oil spill
○ BP eligible to deduct $15.3B on taxes
○ Only $5.5B not eligible for tax deduction (violation of clean water act)
The Settlement Loophole
● Corporate executives and lawyers cut a deal to avoid trial; seek to write of settlement
expenses as ‘ordinary and necessary business expenses’
2008 Global Financial Meltdown
● 2014 report reviewed settlements and decided that most corporations would be able to
write off the bulk of the settlements
JP Morgan Chase Settlement
● Sept 2013 agreed to $13B settlement
● Wrote off $7B
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
Factors Converging to Drive the Pipeline
● Broader societal influences
○ 1980s movement toward a ‘tough on crime’ approach to both adults and juveniles
○ Rising juvenile crime arrests in 80s fueled violent view of young people
● In school influences
○ 1994 passage of gun free schools act
○ Establishment of zero tolerance disciplinary policies
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Document Summary
Symin would talk about players" emotional connections to police brutality actual emotions of players and reason behind their actions. Difficult to prosecute because more than one person. Difficult because people are powerful and wealthy. Channeled through different branch of the criminal justice system. Bp and the us doj settled on a . 8b relating to the deepwater horizon oil spill. Bp eligible to deduct . 3b on taxes. Only . 5b not eligible for tax deduction (violation of clean water act) Corporate executives and lawyers cut a deal to avoid trial; seek to write of settlement expenses as ordinary and necessary business expenses". 2014 report reviewed settlements and decided that most corporations would be able to write off the bulk of the settlements. 1980s movement toward a tough on crime" approach to both adults and juveniles. Rising juvenile crime arrests in 80s fueled violent view of young people. 1994 passage of gun free schools act.
