Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals) by John Braithwaite

Author:John Braithwaite [Braithwaite, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology
ISBN: 9781135094430
Google: 6TrcAAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13T05:12:10+00:00

Too much power, too little power

A deal of theory has now been reviewed which predicts that having a very great amount of power results in high involvement in one kind of crime, while chapter 3 reviewed theories which suggest that having very little power causes crime of another kind. Therefore a redistribution of power, so that there are fewer people at either extreme of the power continuum, would be expected to reduce crime of both types.

The reader may have incorrectly inferred from this that those of intermediate levels of social class are the least criminal of all social-class groups. The theoretical framework presented here analyses two conceptually and empirically different types of crime—power and non-power offences (or white-collar and other crimes). Those who commit power offences are those least likely to commit non-power offences, so to treat them as both part of the one unidimensional construct would be absurd. Power offences increase as an accelerating function of power, and non-power offences decrease as a function of power.61 Therefore, the theoretical framework predicts that people of intermediate levels of social class will commit fewer power offences than those of higher social class, but more non-power offences than those of higher social class. Conversely, they will commit more power offences than those of lower social class, and fewer non-power offences than those of lower social class.

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