Hagan's Pyramid Of Crime
Crime in America has been the be the most serious public issue in America since the beginning. Criminological have created many theories to try and understand how crime has changed over time. In early years many Criminologies were mainly studying the motivation for the crime and risk. But eventually, criminologists decide it was time to explain the criminality. Theories of criminality show the potential of the crime and the motivation to commit a crime (Miethe, Meier 1994). According to Henry and Lanier there six dimensions that definition crime. The legal, moral consensus, rule-relativism, political conflict, power and social harm. The legal definition of crime is the acts prohibited, indicted and disciplined by criminal law. Moral consensus
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This created the labeling theory which explains how the power dimension influenced selecting some behaviors over others as criminal and, also the harmful behavior that is considered invisible. Social harm in crime was defined by having less serious administrative categories and not including the harms like racism, sexism, and poverty. The integrative perspective shows the visibility and invisibility dimension of crime and the power relations by the content of crime. When trying to integrate the perspectives on what or could be considered as crime there has only been three holistic frameworks conducted (1998). The first framework that was conducted was Hagan’s pyramid of crime. According to Hagan’s pyramid of crime, the framework identifies the categories for minor deviance that is accepted standards of behavior and the highly offensive acts like serious harm. Hagan’s pyramid of crime measures the seriousness of crime by low/weak to high/strong. But unfortunately, Hagan’s pyramid of crime was incomplete because the framework lacks the visibility of crime, the extensiveness of crime and selectivity of severe responses to crime (1977). Because of this (Henry, Lanier 1998) took Hagan’s pyramid of crime and just add three dismissions which created a double pyramid called prism of
This created the labeling theory which explains how the power dimension influenced selecting some behaviors over others as criminal and, also the harmful behavior that is considered invisible. Social harm in crime was defined by having less serious administrative categories and not including the harms like racism, sexism, and poverty. The integrative perspective shows the visibility and invisibility dimension of crime and the power relations by the content of crime. When trying to integrate the perspectives on what or could be considered as crime there has only been three holistic frameworks conducted (1998). The first framework that was conducted was Hagan’s pyramid of crime. According to Hagan’s pyramid of crime, the framework identifies the categories for minor deviance that is accepted standards of behavior and the highly offensive acts like serious harm. Hagan’s pyramid of crime measures the seriousness of crime by low/weak to high/strong. But unfortunately, Hagan’s pyramid of crime was incomplete because the framework lacks the visibility of crime, the extensiveness of crime and selectivity of severe responses to crime (1977). Because of this (Henry, Lanier 1998) took Hagan’s pyramid of crime and just add three dismissions which created a double pyramid called prism of