Summary Of 'Power, Social Network, And Organizational Deviant'

In Chapter 3, “Power, Social Network, and Organizational Deviant”, John Curran explains how deviance exists at each level of society and is constantly happening. He goes into detail to explain how different levels of corruption exist. There are various levels of corruption but the only way to engage in police corruption or political corruption is by being a police officer or have a political position. All this leads to the imbalance of power and to a large wealth gap that 1% and 99% of the US society exist in.
The most interesting thing that I've learned not only in this book but from all my professors is the wage gap. As they map it out on the whiteboard it appears an absolute corruption between high elites in society and people who live paycheck to paycheck. They cut taxes for the rich and make the middle class pay 35% of the taxes. Elites get away with stealing wealth from the poor and we the people are so little educated that we cannot figure where the money goes. That is why we cannot prosecute them for the economic disaster that happens, in this case, the financial meltdown of 2008 and 2009.
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In the news, you can hear the Black Lives Matter movement marching in the streets asking for justice for the inequality and the death of millions because of law enforcement. It is amazing that the people we agree upon to protect us from harm and deviance are the ones being deviant and killing innocent people. Law enforcement has the most power because they are allowed to carry a weapon. They can defend themselves with lethal force. It seems that we are unable to trust the police force to protect us from harm's way, instead we can expect discrimination and corruption within the system. We can move forward with the Black Lives Matter movement but with the risk of getting shot while asking for justice. Nowadays we have to say things like,“hands up, don't