Nowadays, this theoretical perspective is no longer taken seriously by criminologists, since they question its validity over environmental conditions and human behaviours that influence blue-collar crimes (Crime and punishment, 2013, p.7). However, the term “Blue-collar crime” was officially recognized in the modern times of the 1910’s (Hostettler, 2011, p.112). It has been classified as a type of crime that is committed by a person who is part of the lower socio-economic class, and who is not involved in a position of power or that has access to upper-class resources such as money. It immediately causes visible damage to society. Consequently, offenders are more likely to be harshly punished than a person committing a white-collar crime. Evidently, they cannot afford lawyers due to their deficient income, therefore the severity of their punishments results as long incarceration sentences. Blue-collar crime contributes to the suffering of the lower class, while guaranteeing the higher class to remain in power as they continue to commit white-collar crimes with milder
Nowadays, this theoretical perspective is no longer taken seriously by criminologists, since they question its validity over environmental conditions and human behaviours that influence blue-collar crimes (Crime and punishment, 2013, p.7). However, the term “Blue-collar crime” was officially recognized in the modern times of the 1910’s (Hostettler, 2011, p.112). It has been classified as a type of crime that is committed by a person who is part of the lower socio-economic class, and who is not involved in a position of power or that has access to upper-class resources such as money. It immediately causes visible damage to society. Consequently, offenders are more likely to be harshly punished than a person committing a white-collar crime. Evidently, they cannot afford lawyers due to their deficient income, therefore the severity of their punishments results as long incarceration sentences. Blue-collar crime contributes to the suffering of the lower class, while guaranteeing the higher class to remain in power as they continue to commit white-collar crimes with milder