CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fraternities And Sororities, White-Collar Crime, American Sociological Association
26 Jan 2020
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In his 1927 definition, thrasher did not include criminality as an essential criterion for designation as a gang: some contemporary scholars have argued that the absence of criminality makes the definition of a gang too broad . In chapter 17, wortley (2014) argues that without the criminality criterion, the study of gangs would become the study of all organized group behaviour . Violence and criminal activity: without requiring the criteria of violence and or regular criminal activity some college fraternities might meet the definition of a gang. Violent offending and victimization has also become more concentrated among young, minority males who reside in canada"s poorest communities : firearms are becoming more prevalent, while more violent incidents are taking place in public settings. Demographics: according to 209 qualitative (face-to-face) interviews conducted by the toronto. The companies name sutherland"s 1949 book white collar crime successfully used legal threats to keep their actual company names out of the book for 34 years.
