CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Biology Of Depression, Price Fixing, Anxiety Disorder

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

Document Summary

Politics of law shapes claims makers and the medias perception of crime. Normalization of deviance: crime , law, and power, ability of corporations to normalize their activities and resist or avoid the application of criminal law. Normalization of deviant acts are decriminalized, and how corporate criminality can be laundered. How to resist the application of law. Corporations and higher status individuals: normalization of deviance as a reflection of corporate influence of both the formation and the enforcement of law. Passage of influence and enforcement of influence. Power is exercised through (1) around the laws that are passed, governing a whole range of corporate activities, and (2) the way it is interpreted and practiced. Enforcement agencies deciding on how the laws should be enforced and deciding whether or not corporate actions constitute anything of those laws: language of corporate wrongdoing and the flexibility of law.