Class Inequality: CJS

Question 1

Class Inequality - CJS:
CJS Statistics

Answer 1

2008 GOV: 57% of prisoners have the literacy levels of an 11 year old (w/c lack education)

2011 JACKSON ‘Lads and Ladettes’: 35% of those on prison riot were on a work benefit

Question 2

Class Inequality - CJS:
Cicourel - Labelling

Answer 2

Police are more likely to arrest people who fitted the picture of having:
- Poor school performance
- Low-income backgrounds
M/c delinquents who were arrested tended to be counselled, cautioned and released by police
Reiner: ethnic minorities or w/c youths living in specific areas are targeted more by police

Question 3

Class Inequality - CJS:
Cicourel - Negotiation

Answer 3

Negotiation: The process of ‘negotiation’ where m/c offenders are in a stronger position to bargain against the CJS

Question 4

Class Inequality - CJS:
Chambliss

Answer 4

Found evidence of widespread corruption wherein the crimes of the rich were frequently ignored
Policing policy was to focus on w/c crime and w/c areas

Question 5

Class Inequality - CJS:
Carlen

Answer 5

Women generally don’t commit crime because they accept the social rewards that come from the class deal
CLASS DEAL: Women from a w/c home expect to earn a good living from working at a job
- Women make an active choice to offend due to the lack of financial support from their family
(crime = rational solution to their problems of poverty & powerlessness)

Question 6

Class Inequality - CJS:
Theorist Names

Answer 6

Jackson
Cicourel (L & N)
Chambliss
Carlen