social class and crime

Webster and Kingston

the link between crime and socio-economic class is directly ties to the degree of inequality in a society and base this on recent self-recent support studies

Nye and Lunt

USA 50% of boys in criminal schools are from poverty backgrounds/welfare. However self surveys at the same time showed only 13% of young offenders considered themselves coming from poor homes.

Carlen

jailed women had a common experience on poverty

Rosenbaum

identifies criminal and problem communities as those consisting of: people on poverty, poor housing, low income, active drug abuse problems etc

Hall

moral panics serve ideological functions. his study of black muggers found focus on ethnicity labelling is a means to ignore the underclass they are in

Cohen

Illustrates the issues of a moral panic and deviancy amplification. The media sensationalised a 'brawl' between two rival groups and this caused increasing deviant behaviour.

Tombs

corporate crime is underreported by the gov, despite having huge environmental, physical and economic impacts

sutherland

coined white collar crime

Karstedt and Farrall

self report studies found that 70% of middle classes admit to "fiddling" economics compared to 52% of poorer classes

Haste

middle classes may have moral codes to include environmentalism but will happily involve themselves in business crimes as it is seen as "getting back at the system"

Taylor-Gooby

data on MC and UC crime is unreliable, especially in self report studies