Social Class and Criminal Achievement

Social Class and Criminal Achievement

The monthly licit and illicit income of 195 offenders was reconstructed for the three-year period prior to their imprisonment. Our thesis here is that social class background increases one’s chances of succeeding in illicit activities and tends to decrease the severity of the criminal courts. The re...

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Auteurs principaux: Charest, Mathieu, Tremblay, Pierre
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Publié: 2012
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spelling cairn-RFS_525_0063RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2011-5-page-63?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.525.0063 Social Class and Criminal Achievement Charest, MathieuTremblay, Pierre2012 fre Revue française de sociologie | 52 | 5 | 2012-01-10 | p. 63-85 | 0035-2969 RFS_52570 The monthly licit and illicit income of 195 offenders was reconstructed for the three-year period prior to their imprisonment. Our thesis here is that social class background increases one’s chances of succeeding in illicit activities and tends to decrease the severity of the criminal courts. The results of this study offer a new perspective on social stratification and criminal opportunity and call into question the understanding, widespread among criminologists, that social class has minimal impact on criminal trajectories.Cairn free access
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description The monthly licit and illicit income of 195 offenders was reconstructed for the three-year period prior to their imprisonment. Our thesis here is that social class background increases one’s chances of succeeding in illicit activities and tends to decrease the severity of the criminal courts. The results of this study offer a new perspective on social stratification and criminal opportunity and call into question the understanding, widespread among criminologists, that social class has minimal impact on criminal trajectories.
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