Failed consumers and easy targets

the correlation between the consumer underclass and the criminalization of poverty

Abstract

This article proposes to relate the concepts that involve the consumer society and the way it is organized to explore the analysis of the population contingent that is placed outside the relationships between individuals and classes based on hyperconsumption. Critical Criminology explains that in the penal system there are also certain targets for directing penalties and the complex penal system is built from different biases. The research is based on the investigation about the existence of a correlation between hyperconsumption and the criminalization of poverty, when confronting the theories in the two fields of analysis. To achieve this objetive the central authors in the two fields of action were used, to form a united perspective of reflection on the problem in the text. Symmetry was found in the notes, regarding the existence of people who do not serve the good functioning of the consumption system based on the maintenance of the dominant narrative and the same are directed to the penal system. The reflection does not end with this work and suggests that the criminalization is not solution to inequalities but is the result of it.