CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: White-Collar Crime, Criminology, Social Inequality

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Morality and crime: e(cid:454)plori(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)e o(cid:374) the (cid:373)argi(cid:374)s(cid:863, examine the links between morality and crime, criminalizing drug use: objective harm versus social construction. Crime on the margins: focus on the boundaries or margins between crime and deviance. Certain crimes like assault, robbery is interesting to criminologist. Why are certain crimes viewed differently then others: examination of two related process, amplification of deviance actions that have been viewed and treated s criminal. The deviance aspects of a behaviour or activity are exasperated and amplified, redefined as a crime. Drugs, gambling and prostitution: normalization of deviance. Process through which the deviant aspect of a behaviour are minimized with the result of the activity not being a crime. Corporate and white collar crime: (cid:862)o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ist(cid:863) (cid:448)ersus (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374)ist approa(cid:272)hes to so(cid:272)ial pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s. Objectivist focuses on the harms that are associated with that actions. Constructionist the status of behaviour of social problems is the result of social construction.