CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cadillac Elr, Corporate Crime, Differential Association

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Adina Ilea

Document Summary

General strain theory: focused on role of emotions and perceptions of strain. Law-breaking behavior is a coping mechanism for problems generated by negative social relations. Identified more strains (than just blocked opportunities); therefore, can explain more than just financially motivated crimes. Reducing class-based crime: mixed-class neighborhoods: reduction in lower-class crime, over commitment to financial success: increase in upper-class crime. Strain theory and crimes of powerful: economic institutions dominate north american culture/ society, societal pressure to succeed financially, weak / ineffective laws to prevent corporate crime, focus on street crime obscures harm caused by corporate crime. Policy implications of strain theory: based on strain theory, what changes should we make to society"s laws, institutions, services, etc. The untapped promise of cannabis legalization: tedxtalk (13:49) by professor akwasi owusu-bempah. Primary & secondary deviation: primary deviation, early in career, the offender commits deviant acts infrequently, drift between conventional and deviant norms. Secondary deviation: deviance becomes a way of life.