Essay: Crime

Estephania Maupome

In Class Essay#2

English 1A

Crime

People commit crime every single day at every single time around the world. The theorist came up with so many explanations about crime and the people that commit crime. Conflict Theory is the argument †hat deviance is deliberately chosen and often political in nature, in which is the best theory of why society commits crime. Is mainly about the economical problems and the discrimination in society.

Worldwide, the economic situation has been one of the greatest problem without a smart solution. The only alternative that low class society found to survive is committing crimes such as steeling. The rich society steels too, but to the poor. “The inclination to violence springs from the circumstances of life among the ghetto poor- the lack of jobs that pay a living wage (…) [is the result] alienation and lack of hope for the future”(Anderson,171). This is all created by the rich people that control everything in this world, since they steel the money from the poor people by taking the money from taxes or not paying the full amount of money that they should pay to the employees, they use it to their own benefit. The poor people have to steel according to survive. Is just a vicious cycle that never ends one steels for pleasure and the other one steels to survive. This has “become increasingly oppressive toward working-class (…) or in tax legislation that disproportionately favors the wealthy”(ES,156).In Mexico is one of the worst countries with economic crime, there is no money left to the poor so once again they have to steel, such like the drug dealers. Since Mexico is sinking in corruption, the drug dealers are the leaders in the country because they have the money to control the president and since they want power and money, they do not care about the poor people. If the poor people steel from them, they get killed or they have to join them to have a “better” life.

However; In conflict theory has some strength and positiveness to the effect of economical problems .In the Farmworker’s daughter, Rose and Bobby were “steeling” the can food that was on the warehouse in the farm, and giving it to the workers in the farm for free. This could be also be represented as a “Robin Hood” term “Steel from the rich and give it to the poor”. The theory seeks moral ends to the emancipation of humanity, when one group takes power and seeks to justify it represent the “freedom for all”.

The society has been changing thru the years , but not the racial discrimination.  “The Hopelessness and alienation many young inner-city black men and women feel, largely as a result of endemic joblessness and persistent racism, fuels the violence they engage in”(Anderson,183). Since the early years of socialization in the world, always have existed the racial discrimination towards the minority. The most affected groups that have been discriminated are the Black and Latino communities, just because they are not like the “whites”. The were two robberies at the same time in California, one was a $100 steeling from a grocery store from a black person and the other one a high class (white) executive that commit a fraud to a bank for billions of dollars. The one who stole the billions of dollars got two months of jail and the other one who stole $100 got forty years of jail. That really explains in what class of society we live now, it doesn’t matter how much money you steel, the only thing that matters is the color and the ethnicity you come from. The critical theory’s connection with socialism and statism is it greatness weakness.

Conflict Theory “emphasize that crime occurs at all levels of society and must be understood in the context of inequalities and competing interest between social groups”(ES,156).