social class and crime

white collar crime

merton strain theory - culture of sucess in companies. if people dont suceed legitimately then they commit crime to achieve goals.

white collar crime marxism

justice system set up to protect businesses so benifts ruling class and doesnt help wc.

labelling

wc are labelled as more criminogenic and therefore justice system sees them as making a conscious decision to commit crime.

selective law creation

Middle and upper class create the law so are able to mainpulate it to benefit their own

differential association

in a culture where everyone is doing it, and competition is rife - people will commit crime as they are just doing the norm.

labelling

the wealthy can afford to de-label crime

marxists

the wealthy and the powerful make the laws and control the media which can downplay cooperate crime and its impact so this protects governments and big businesses.