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conflict theories - Coggle Diagram

- - - - DAVID GORDON- crime is a rational response to capitalist system
  - - - Pearce- laws benefit the bourgeoisie too, by keeping workers fit for work and giving capitalism a caring face- false consciousness
    - - powerless groups criminalised, police ignore crimes of powerful
      - because of media representation, crime appears to be a largely working class phenomenon
      - encourages workers to blame criminals for their problems rather than capitalism
- - - - white collar and corporate crime do more harm than ordinary or street crime, one estimate puts the cost of white collar in the USA at over 10 times that of ordinary crime.
      - TOMBS- corporate crime has enormous costs; physical, environmental and economic
  - - - BOX- if company cannot achieve its goal of maximising profits by legal means, it may employ illegal ones instead- innovation
      - YINGER- law violations by large companies increased as their financial performance deteriorated, suggested a willingness to innovate
    - - sutherland sees criminal behaviour as learned through the process of socialisation
      - if a company justifies committing crime to achieve corporate goals, employees will be socialised into this criminality
      - techniques of neutralisation- employees may just say they were carrying out orders.
    - - NELKEN argues that companies have the power to avoid negative labelling- delabelling
      - afford expensive lawyers or accountants to prevent their activities being labelled as criminal
    - - capitalism has created a mystification- spread the idea that corporate crime is less widespread or harmful than working class crime
      - only the tip of the iceberg are prosecuted