 Who is doing the definition of what is crime?  The State is apparatus of the ruling class  Examples  Dealing with protest  Peterloo Massacre State Violence  Paris Commune 1872  Judges and trade union law  Stripping away trade unions immunities  Violence against strikers

 Social Background of Judges  Interpretation of the Law  Freedom of the individual the firm becomes an individual protect property  Strikes infringements of the Individual  Maintaining law and order  Protection of Property Rights  Crime related to Structure of Capitalism  Alienated Labour  People as commodities

 Race and crime in the USA  Stop and Search in the UK  White Collar Crime  Insider trading in financial markets  MPs recent allowances scandal  Who makes the Law

 Classical capitalism or a new capitalism  Class solidarity and fragmentation of class  Objective view of class  Concept of middle class America  Poverty Welfare and the Under Class  Bauman on Fluid Modernity