ADJ-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: White-Collar Crime, Structural Marxism, Class Consciousness
Document Summary
Petty property crime is more paid attention to rather than white collar crime where it"s more secretive and not as criminalized even tho its not as serious". It"s not about consensus and is about special interest, elements of conflict theory. Groups in control criminalize certain behaviors that threaten their wealth, power or prestige. Crime is committed as a form of resistance; against conditions of inequality. (strain theory: a normal response to abnormal conditions and leads to crime, but crime is still illegitimate because they are forced into it by the strain of the situation) Capitalism is the source of most social problems. Working class leads to getting mad and are alienated. Direct and transparent link between interest of the ruling class and the laws and function of the criminal justice system. Laws are transparents, and to hold down those that are not part of the ruling class .
