In our time, economic power is registered in currencies but there are many non-market goods and services which can be used to coerce people to demean and degrade themselves and others. Much of the crime in class inequality comes about through the deployment of wealth in such a way to reproduce structures of domination. That middle class people don't commit robbery, burglary, mug or rape people does not yield moral superiority when they abuse trust to embezzle, defraud, exploit or coerce. D. Forms of Political Crime. I usually make distinction between privatized political crime and institutionalized political crime.
Rape is an example of the first while warfare exemplar of the second.
Assault, rape, battering, beating, mugging, robbery, extortion, murder and threat of violence generally. Core countries send armies to far away places to guarantee access to land, resources, markets and labor. Why it is ignored by most criminologists is testimony to the ideological flaws and defaults in American Criminology inherited from socio-biology, physiology, reductionist psychology and depoliticized social psychology. A major task for postmodern criminology in the 21st century is to add content and theory to the discipline.