Week Seventeen - The Rest Flashcards
1
Q
Breaking laws vs. causing harm…
A
The focus is on “the regulation broken and not on the consequences of that broken regulation… In conventional crime… a person is charged with the consequences of his/her action” (Box, 1983)
2
Q
The Establishment…
A
Benefit fraud costs £1.2bn annually (0.7% of social security spending) presented as a despicable crime
Tax avoidance worth approx £25bn per year is even facilitated by the state
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” (Karl Marx, p.xv)
