https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip en-us 2019-04-26 09:39:22 UTC 2026-03-10 20:45:12 UTC hello@padlet.com molly_gz https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354393521 Cohen - Theory of subculture formation. Subcultures respond to the community/society of which they live.
Example - community of high unemployment and no opportunities, a gang may develop and engage in criminal behaviour to earn their status in their community.]]> 2019-04-26 10:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354393521 molly_gz https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354395146 Marxist theories seek to explain why working class individuals commit more crime than others.
Proletarian response to capitalism may be a reason for crime.
New right theory - Murray developed the concept underclass. underclass likely to abuse the benefit/welfare system. ]]> 2019-04-26 10:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354395146 18omotayem https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354396796 White-collar crime (or corporate crime) refers to financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed by businesses and government professionals. It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation". Typical white-collar crimes could include embezzlement, fraud, bribery, Ponzi schemes, insider trading.]]> 2019-04-26 10:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354396796 molly_gz https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354397231 Consensus policing - Functionalists see police as working on behalf of the community they're policing, presence is welcomed and reassuring, known members of community. Left realists recognise this is not always the reality of policing but is a desirable model of how it should be
-RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Home office research suggests meeting the offender benefits 80% of victims.]]> 2019-04-26 10:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354397231 18omotayem https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354398118 Marxists note that although all classes commit crimes, the law is selectively enforced so that higher class and corporate offenders are less likely to be prosecuted than working-class offenders. Such crimes by the powerful have become known as 'white-collar crimes'
Pearce and tombs have noted that many corporate crime do not actually break the law.]]> 2019-04-26 10:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354398118 molly_gz https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354399873  Conflict policing - Marxist perspective and one that views the police as a hostile outside force. Two main justifications exist REDUCTION and RETRIBUTION.
Levi 1993- official statistics don't include fraud]]> 2019-04-26 10:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/354399873 molly_gz https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/356119877 Pearce and tombs - 'any illegal act that is the result deliberate decisions or culpable negligance by the legitimate business or organisation and that is intended to benefit the business.
Tombs argues that these types of offence are more about who has the power to define an act as a crime rather than about how harmful the act is: powerful corporations can influence the law so that their actions are not criminalised.]]> 2019-05-02 09:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_gz/34qrg5tuoiip/wish/356119877