The Common Sense Hierarchy Of Imorality?: What Is Wrong?

Many critics of Criminology argue that crime is something that we are faced with from the day we were born, due to television, movies, news and music. It is argued that our perception of what is right and what is wrong is shaped at a very young age and when we become adults it can be said that it is difficult to change our way of thinking. This essay will firstly, discuss what the ‘common sense hierarchy of immorality’ is, then it will go on to evaluate the theory, how we form our perception and lastly, it would discuss whether or not our perception of crime should be changed. Steven Box in 1983 argued that the ‘common sense hierarchy of immorality’ distorts our perception and understanding of harm. The ‘common sense hierarchy of immorality’

It can be argued that ‘crimes of indifference are more immoral because it can be said that when they are committing these crimes they are not concerned with whom they are harming, but when someone commits an intentional act they want to harm who they want to harm and they know why they are committing the act’. These Acts of indifference can be seen in the example of corporate crimes. Though many ‘people are aware of what corporate crimes are there are still many who do not know’. A corporate or white-collar crime can be described as “a crime committed by any person through the venue of his or her employment that benefits the business”, ‘this can mean that a corporation does an illegal act of indifference to better the corporation’. It is argued that corporate crimes are more harmful to the general public than acts of intention. When it comes to these ‘crimes it can be said that many of the victims that it affects do not realize, that they are being affected and if and when they do know it is argued that they are told that it is due to a misfortunate accident and that there is no one to blame for the Act’. Many criminologists such as Sutherland argued that corporate crime is something

The ‘common sense hierarchy of immorality’ is that crimes of intention are more immoral than those of indifference. It can be argued that corporate crimes or crimes of indifference are the real crimes that cause the most human suffering due to official crime statistics. The media can be said to keep the real stories hidden from the public in order to keep it appealing and keep it’s users in fear so that they can maximise their number of users and profit. In my opinion, I believe that the way we view crime through this ‘common sense hierarchy of immorality’ is wrong we are afraid of things that can be said, we have a 90% chance of dying from. We have more of a chance to die from crimes of indifference than those of intention. It can be said that our minds have been constructed to believe that crimes of indifference are less harmful and most of the time mistakes but, it can be argued that when someone does something and has no concern to whom they are harming is more of a problem than someone who intentionally commits a crime. The ‘common sense hierarchy of immorality’ needs to be changed around and base crimes of indifference at the top and intentional crimes at the bottom. It can be argued that in order to start to change people’s way of thinking the media needs to stop portraying the intentional