How far does Becker's account (The Outsiders 1963) of the processes underlying the selective enforcement of criminal law help us to understand and explain the policing of domestic violence and white collar crime?

... IMAGES OF CRIME Assessed Coursework Module Code: CL2351 Student Number: 010 383 313 Question: How far does Becker's account (The Outsiders 1963) of the processes underlying the selective enforcement of criminal law help us to understand and explain the policing of domestic violence and white collar crime? In order to answer this question it is important to look at certain aspects of the 'Images of Crime'. Crime is not always what it is portrayed to be, it is something that happens everyday and most people commit some sort of crime at some point in their existence. Crimes can vary from those such as murdering a person to speeding on the motorway. Criminal activity has not always been enforced in the same way, some crimes are more 'acceptable' and others are less 'acceptable'. The people who determine the level of acceptability are both societies in general and also the police as an enforcement unit. On the

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