Crime Control and Punishment Policy

• Albert Cohen:

  • Subcultures develop as the poor become professional criminals or gain social status through criminality which they cannot get through non-criminal means
• Crime Control and Punishment Policy (CCPP):

  • CCPP is based on making society more equal i.e. increase policies to tackle poverty, better schooling, education in prison (Rehabilitation)
  • There is lots of evidence to show that by tackling poverty you can reduce criminality. Societies with good welfare imprison less people overall
  • Those societies with greater inequality (often based on capitalism) imprison the most people