ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the journey traversing the mother discipline in search of ideas which deepens ones understanding of the crimes of the powerful. It starts off by noting an antithesis between the social and the economic. The chapter returns to the line of argument established by Simmel, Wright Mills and others. The analysis of dispersion depicts power as domination and subjugation, it fails to indicate where and in what circumstances conducts of powerful groups and individuals may be described as criminal. The chapter enriches with definitions and analyses of the crime of the powerful derived from definitions of power itself, providing an arena of investigation and thinking that will need further future efforts. One have learned that the diffusion and relational constitution of power, along with imitative behaviour, can help locate theoretically, with more precision, the crimes of the powerful. As Poggi has perceptively argued: Social theory allows us to view the crimes of the powerful in the same fashion.
