Most certainly Conflict, well firstly the definition of crime changes over time eg. Some actions are legal one minute then not the next. Therefore Conflict is a theory of over-control, there is to much control in society and because more acts are now seen by society as criminal, more crimes are reported when in actual fact crime is not on the increase it is just that there are more and more definitions of what CONSTITUTES a crime than ever before. The powerful advantaged people make the rules which is their version of right and wrong and impose them on the powerless. It is then normal people in society which are labelled as criminals through acts in which the powerful decide, constitutes as a crime. The POWERFUL groups in society are in actual fact the BIGGEST CRIMINALS alive......
How Would You Define Crime? Based On Your Definition, Which Model Do You Relate To (consensus Or Conflict)? Why?
Crime is what everybody thinks they should say is a crime yet individually they do not agree. Conflict. Cannot be consensus or would there be crime if everyone agrees what is wrong or what is right? Then it has to be aliens committing those "crimes". In the real world the man on the street is not considered as a stakeholder. Thus the politicians and accepted stakeholders are the ones who declare what is good for the man on the street. Who would not be deviant? This reminds me of Columbus "discovering" the "West Indies" and expecting the locals to conform to their standards. Yet claiming the locals were unintelligent?
How Would You Define Crime? Based On Your Definition, Which Model Do You Relate To (consensus Or Conflict)? Why?