Conflict Theory In Criminal Justice

Imagine a world of territories, with each territory having a culture of it’s own. In the world, there is only a limited number of territories. When one territory is unfit to live in, the inhabitants must find a new place to live. Unfortunately, that is not always something that is easily done. Finding a place of your own, where someone already resides, is going to create conflict. This is what we can call a Conflict Theory.

The conflict theory is seen commonly every where. The ground work of this theory can be seen in may different places, both in criminal justice and out of criminal justice. The ground work, the first layer of the conflict theory, is that it is an imposing threat on ideas, standards, behaviors, and anything else that

He considered it a crime for those other than he and his fellow natives to establish roots in the United States. If you were going to dare come to his holy land, you were going to pay to the all righteous Bill Cutting. You were going to pay for what he saw as trying to take what was his. “As a result, more powerful people are legally free to pursue self-interests, while less powerful people who pursue self-interests are more likely to be officially defined and processed as criminal” (Bernard, Vold, Snipes, Gerould, 2010, p. 246). Officer Mulraney grew to have the same concept. He had the power of the law on his side and if you defied him, you would be seen as a criminal and dealt with as

It is more unique than other scenarios. The conflict theory is not the black and white criminology conflict theory. The minority was seen as a conflict and dealt with in such a way as those saw fit for a criminal, but all doings were done in criminal ways. A criminal protecting its own strain of crime. Within any problem between people or societies, a new social group will begin to grow. People may be living in unison, but when there becomes a conflict the unison begins to divide causing the possibility for at least two social groups to form. The conflict of one group trying to decide to enforce their wants and desires and what they see fit, and the opposing group doing the same, but with their views being different enough to create a conflict. (Britannica, 2015)

Anyone foreign that was coming over to the United States was coming to just find a better life. They were being run out of their home by problems of all shapes and sizes. When coming to New York, they found a new life, but a life of being suppressed to living like a slave. A slave to Bill Cutting. A slave to Officer Mulraney. A slave to the title of not being a United States Native. Being forced to live under someone else’s rule and take unfair treatment, giving away anything they worked for to make their life better and being treated like a