Social class and crime
- Created by: jesskeayy
- Created on: 28-05-17 19:39
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- Social class and crime
- Social Attitudes Survey 2012- suggests that social class is harder to assert social class
- Postmodern society- cannot base social class on occupation or demographic factors
- ROSENBAUM
- Criminal areas are usually- people in poverty, poor housing, poor access to education, low-income families and active drug abuse problems
- CARLEN
- Women that commit crimes have often experience poverty and homelessness
- It may not be that the working class commit more crime, though are more likely to be convicted
- CICOUREL
- Negotiation of justice
- CICOUREL
- NEW RIGHT
- View benefitting as criminiogenic
- SEU 2002 reported that prisoners were more likely to have: been in the care system, be poorly educated, experienced unemployment, come from benefit-dependant families
- Middle class have access to more 'sophisticated crimes' i.e. fraud and theft
- Fraud committed online- working class don't have access to computers etc
- Less likely to be found out: can claim on business expenses, matters dealt with internally to prevent bad press
- Poorer people more likely to be victims of crime- due to poor housing and security. TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS
- MARXISTS see crime as a function of class- working class resist capitalism
- FUNCTIONALISTS/ NEW RIGHT see crime as a result of poor socialisation
- INTERACTIONISTS claim poor are more likely to be labelled as criminals
- Social Attitudes Survey 2012- suggests that social class is harder to assert social class
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