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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.


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