blog writing #relationship between social class and crime

There has been a great debate on the relationship between social class and crime in criminology. Crime mostly being related to individuals at low-class lifestyle and justice being distributed unfairly is a phenomenon that has caused significant conflict from different views. There is an assumption of a low-class lifestyle being inherently criminogenic. It is assumed that crime was mainly a lower-class phenomenon (Hagan, J., & Peterson, R. D. 1995). Individuals from low-class lifestyles are most likely to get convicted for crimes. In the United States, most prisoners end up being unemployed and earning less compared to the general population in America.