AUSOC 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Corporate Crime, Left Realism, Wage Labour
1 Oct 2018
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Argues that the criminalization of much behaviour is directed toward problem populations who are surplus to the labour market. Two ways these problem populations are created: Directly surplus populations are created as new technologies replace workers with machines or when work is outsourced to other countries. Indirectly problem populations are created through mass education in the form of dropouts and student radicals. Problem populations become candidates for deviance processing when they disturb, hinder, or call into question of: When the poor steal from the rich. Those who refuse or are unable to perform wage labour. Those who use drugs for escape rather than sociability and adjustment. Youths who refuse to be schooled or those who deny the validity of family life. Proponents of alternative forms of social organization. Argues that juveniles form a class of their own and should be considered part of the surplus population. Youths are excluded from lawful sources of income, which creates motivation towards delinquency.
