CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White-Collar Crime, Edwin Sutherland, Cheque Fraud

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 101
• Professor: Daniel Alati

Document Summary

Enterprise crimes: break regulatory rules for financial gain without personal victimization, two types, white collar crimes. Illegal activity for profit through legitimate business transactions: organized crimes. Illegal activity for profit through illegitimate business enterprise. Edelhertz(cid:495)s typology of white collar crime: ad-hoc violations, opportunistic, for personal gain. Ie tax fraud: abuses of trust, systematic uses of position for personal gain. Ie embezzlement, bribery: collateral business crimes, large scale, committed by organizations for profit, environmental crimes, antitrust violations, con games, cheating clients. Ie bogus securities, fraudulent land sales: victims and perpetrators can be individuals or organization. Moore(cid:495)s typology of white collar crime: stings and swindles, stealing through deception. Individual exploitation of position: a person takes advantage of position for financial gain, person pays bribe for something they technically have the right to, government officials accepting bribes, kickbacks. Influence peddling and bribery: person is paying a bribe for something that they have no right to, government sponsorship scandal.