CC100 Chapter 9: CC100_ch09_socialconflicttheory.pdf
Document Summary
A general approach that sees criminal behaviour as caused by economic inequality, and criminal law defined by those in power. To explain crime within economic and social contexts including seeing: The connections among class, crime, and control. How there is bias in the justice system. Portrayed crime as a function of social demoralization. A collapse of people"s humanity reflecting a decline in society. The brutality of the capitalist system turns workers into animal-like creatures without a will of their own. Society composed of ruling and inferior classes. Laws reflect interests of the dominant class. Capitalism encourages egoism and criminality by equating status with property. Punishment applies more to crimes of the poor. Economic inequality intensifies personal problems and crime. Modern society organized into imperatively organized associations. Those who possess authority and use for social dominance and; Those who lack authority and are dominated. Every society is based on the coercion of some of its members by others.
