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Street Crime
• Why does street crime occur?• Functionalist believe that the poor want more
things because society socializes them in this direction.
• Our society’s road to success (schools) often fails the poor.
• So poor turn to crime to get these items they want.
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Crimes
• White Collar Crimes- crimes committed by people of respect and high social status, mostly in the course of their occupation
• Corporate Crimes- a special form of a white collar crime by executives to benefit the corporation
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Why do white collar & executives commit crimes?
• They have the money and the power, therefore seldom is a corporate crime taken seriously (even when it results in death)
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Exxon Valdez
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Tylenol Case
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Ford Explorer & Firestone Tires
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Questions
• Why do street crimes and white collar crime continue to happen?
• What role does society play in street crime and white collar crime?
• Why do American’s fear street crime more than corporate crimes?
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Conflict Perspective
• Power equals inequality• Conflict theorists believe the group at the top
controls the criminal justice system• See law as an instrument of oppression (myth
that laws are fair)
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Reactions to Deviance
• Prisons– People who go to prison often return to prison
(recidivism)
• Death Penalty– Higher percentage of men on death row than
women
• Legal Change- making change in the laws such as dealing with hate crimes
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Medicalization of Deviance
• Is deviant behavior a result of mental illness or simply problem behaviors?
• One theory is that mental illness causes people to act bizarre
• Another theory is that people act bizarre because of their experiences in life.
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Humane Approach
• Deviance is going to happen.• One measure of society is how it treats its
deviance.• Prisons are warehouses of the poor and
unwanted.• White collar people get a slap on the wrist• We need to find a way to protect people from
deviance that is harmful, tolerate deviance that is not harmful and create a fair system.