’s “Pyrrhic defeat” theory, criminologically exploring the state’s inability to take action against the monstrous crimes of the rich and powerful by deflecting attention away from this behaviour to “conventional” crimes of the poor and powerless. Reiman’s Pyrrhic defeat theory also predicts that economic inequality demands that only a token few will be prosecuted.
Reiman and Leighton coined the term “Pyrrhic defeat” to explain the aim and function of the criminal justice system as the indirect legitimisation of the existing inequitable and unjustifiable economic system embedded in deeply unequal societies, such as that found in South Africa. Thomas Piketty
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