SOC 248 Chapter Notes - Chapter Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: White-Collar Crime, Sherman Antitrust Act
13 Oct 2017
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Soc 248- reading notes- experiencing race, class, and gender in the united states. Serious criminal behavior is widespread about middle and upper-class individuals, All state that a poor person is more likely to be arrested and charged than a middle or. While lower-class individuals do commit more than their share of crime, arrest records although these individuals are rarely, if ever arrested overstate their share and understate that of the middle and upper class upper-class person. Thornberry found that among boys arrested for equally serious offenses and who had similar prior offense records, police were more likely to refer the lower-class youths than the more affluent ones to juvenile courts. Mccarthy found that, in metropolitan areas, for similar suspected crimes, unemployed people were more likely to be arrested than employed. Many say this is because poor have less privacy. Others argue that police training conditions police officers to be suspicious of certain.
