Edwin M. Schur > Quotes

“It is difficult not to conclude that American society has what might be termed Capitalism with a vengeance—a reverence for the values of individualism, competition, and profit of such intensity as to provide incentives to crime that go well beyond a level that must be considered inevitable in a modern complex society, even a basically capitalist one.”
― Edwin M. Schur, Our Criminal Society: The Social and Legal Sources of Crime in America