8.3.7: Crime and Criminal Justice
If justice is supposed to be blind, it certainly is not when it comes to our chances of being arrested (Henslin 2018).
In Chapter 6, we discussed how the social classes commit different types of crime.
The white-collar crimes of the more privileged classes are more likely to be dealt with outside the criminal justice system, while the police and courts deal with the street crimes of the lower classes.
One consequence of this class standard is that members of the lower classes are more likely to be in prison, on probation, or on parole. In addition, since those who commit street crimes tend to do so in or near their own neighborhoods, the lower classes are more likely to be robbed, burglarized, raped, or murdered.
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