SOSC 3360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Surplus Labour, Tax Evasion, Money Laundering

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3360
• Professor: Jonathan Rudin

Document Summary

Marx and engels theories: theory of capitalism (ec. system, capitalist modes of production. Individual profit, capital accumulation: competition, wage labour, class division, state power, no theory of crime, criminals as lumpenproletariat. William chambliss (1933-2014: chambliss (1974), crime is defined by the upper class influencing state policy: Box 1983: turns his gaze to police crimes and centralized state power and white color crime. White-collar crime is the omission and commission by an individual or group of individuals in a legitimate formal organization-which have a serious physical or economic impact on employees, consumers of the general public (box 1983:20) Politics of representation and processes of law/crime making. Representations: are not neutral and objective but are agenda (political, economic, social) driven, representations are underwritten by gender, race, class, age . bias (historical and geopolitical expressions of racism, sexism, classism), representations are labeling and stereotyping practices. Marxist theories and its implications: to reduce crime: abolish capitalist order and overthrow capitalism, redistribution of resources and wealth.