Box's power and crime
Box argues that crime definitions, enforcement, and punishment reflect power: powerful groups define their actions as legal while criminalising actions of powerless groups, ensuring crime statistics show working-class crime.
Real World
Amazon's use of legal tax avoidance strategies (routing profits through Luxembourg) costs governments billions annually, while an individual convicted of benefits fraud faces prosecution — the same sum treated entirely differently by the law.
Exam Focus
Use Box to challenge the validity of official crime statistics; show examiners you understand data as a social construct, not objective fact.
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