Crime as a Consequence of People’s Exclusion From the Consumer Market

This paper aims at understanding how people excluded from the consumer market end up in the criminal milieu as a viable solution for them. The literature review addresses one of the aspects of the capitalist system, which leads to exclusion and segregation in a large part of the consumer market population and, thus, can engender alienation and incursion into the criminal world. We intend to refer our study to the method of archival ethnography, since the material of our analysis is part of a research with people in deprivation of liberty. The process of interpretation makes it possible to understand that the segregating dynamics of the consumer market is responsible by an attempt of including people, even though in an alienated way, since they chose the crime instead.