CRIM 2311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anomie, American Justice, Capitalism
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Chapter eleven: crimes of the powerfultheories of white collar crime. Until the 1970s, crimes of the powerful-or what are known as white collar crimes-had been largely ignored by criminology. Civil rights movement emphasized equal justice before the law. Contrast richard nixon"s racialized call for (cid:440)law and order(cid:441) against his own administration"s crimes. Consumer and environmental movements growing stronger (ralph. A fundamental hypocrisy stains the american justice system. The costs of crimes of the powerful far outweigh the costs of crimes of the poor. The only way to stop these harms is to use criminal sanctions to bring law and order to the upper-world. Types of white collar crime projects by criminologists. To show the dimensions and costs of this criminality, scholars wrote textbooks conveying the misconduct of those wearing white collars. Other scholars explored the difficult issue of how white-collar crime should be controlled. Scholars developed theories of white collar crime.
