Originally Posted by
law dawg
Rape, torture/murder, murder and assault are economic crimes how, exactly? Anomie theory is an excellent theory for explaining economic crimes, but it tends to fall on its face when presented with crimes where there is no economic gain, like rape.
Man is a social, hierarchical animal and many of the games man plays are dominance based and have nothing to do with money.
White collar crime is another example of where the theory falls on its face for economic crimes. We are not talking about Les Miserables examples.