Crime sociologists
Cards (73)
- Inevitability of crime
- Boundary maintenance
- Crime creates adaption and change
- Too little crime means society is too oppressed
- Safety valve for sexual activity
- Crime is a warning for failing institutions
- American dream
- Strain theory adaptions: conformity, innovation, ritualism and rebellion
- Status frustration
- Subcultural strain theory: retreatists, conflict, criminal
- 'Anything goes' mentality in the pursuit of wealth
- Crime is a social construction
- The negotiation of justice
- Crime statistics cannot be trusted
- Primary and secondary deviant label
- Hippy labelling case study
- Deviance amplification spiral
- Justice system relabels an offense as more serious, leading to more arrests
- Reintegrative shaming
- Suicide statistics cannot be trusted
- Coroners use assumptions rather than statistics when making verdicts
- Paranoia as a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Institutionalisation
- WC has their own independent subculture
- Crime is a rational response to the capitalist system
- Laws that protect private property are the cornerstone of the capitalist economy
- Capitalist state is reluctant to pass laws that threaten profit
- Laws benefit the ruling class as they keep their workers healthy and safe
- Crime is a conscious choice and not shaped by economic necessity
- Neo Marxist thinking is too general and idealistic
- White collar crime
- Corporate crime
- Crimes of the powerful is an abuse of trust
- Companies use illegal methods to maximise profits
- Large companies' law violations increase when financial performance decreases
- People who join companies who price fix, were socialised into contributing
- People deviate more if they can find a justification
- Companies avoid criminal labels by hiring the best lawyers and accountants
- It's unrealistic to assume all business would commit crimes without the threat of punishment
- For companies, law abiding may be more profitable than law breaking