WDW101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Corporate Crime, Paternalism, Social Forces
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Criminology in canada: chapter 9: social conflict theory. Conflict theory: sees criminal behavior as caused by economic inequality, and criminal law defined by those in power. Believed economic conditions of capitalism had put workers at the mercy of their capitalist employers. 2 components to production: productive forces, which include technology, energy source, and material resources, relations of production, which exist among the people producing goods and services. Believed that societies change through slow evolution or sudden violence because of contradictions or conflicts present in a society: not able to change, destabilize society, social change. Crime as a product of law enforcement policies akin to a labeling process theory. Working class people commit crime because their choice is a slow death of starvation or a speedy one at the hands of the law. Ruling class and an inferior class, penal laws serves the will of the ruling class.