SOC212H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: White-Collar Crime, Critical Criminology, Corporate Crime
20 Mar 2013
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In these theories, looking at the integration of the rationality of the actor within the larger economic structure: Deviance is revolution, political act, sign of desperation. Why radical" to break with the seeming limitations of the sociology of deviance" without returning to conventional criminology. Late 1960"s radicaled students (vietnam war, racial conflict, feminist consciousness) Neo-marxist philosophers reinterpreted marxist theory in an attempt to account for the cries that arose, the inability of capitalism to resolve them, the inevitability of new and more devastating conflicts. Before, more interested in deviance by the lower class, but new interest in white collar or corporate crime. Taylor, walton and young criticized earlier theories as predicting too little bourgeois and too much proletarian criminality". 1 philosophical bases for liberal criminology located in work of hobbes, Locke, bentham, utilitarian tradition incapable of reconciling inequality rooted in property relations and the extension of rationality to those who offend.
