Estratificación social y delincuencia: cuarenta años de discrepancias sociológicas

• Autores: Teodoro Hernández de Frutos
• Localización: Revista internacional de sociología, ISSN 0034-9712, Nº. 45, 2006, págs. 199-232
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.3989/ris.2006.i45.21
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  • La sociología de la delincuencia encontró en la clase social un robusto e indiscutible apoyo sobre el que sustentarse para explícar los comportamientos desviados. Las bases teóricas fundamentales se cimentaron sobre 55 puñados de teorías qse tvieron su origen es los años cincuenta del pasado siglo y que se extendieron básicamente durante los treinta años siguientes. Pero esta claridad teórica no acabó de encontrar una apoyatura práctica. Cuando se empezaran a poner en tela de juicio los datos de las estadísticas oficiales procedentes de la policía y de los tribunales y es su lugar se echó mano de los auto-informes, los investigadores se dieron de bruces con una realidad insospechada: la estensa delincuencia de cuello blanco no registrada. Ello indujo a pensar que la relación entre clase social y delincuencia era en realidad un mito sostenido sobre los prejuicios de considerar a una clase social como más peligrosa, detenerla más, juzgarla más y condenarla más. Surgió entonces una prolongada controversia fundamentada sobre dos postulados inamovibles: "no importa cómo se mire la clase social, ya que no incide sobre la delincuencia" frente a "la clase social correlaciona negativamente con la delincuencia; según se baja en la escala aumentan los delitos".

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