SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Differential Association, Mandatory Sentencing, Sexual Orientation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Lower you are on the social class scale the more regulated and watched you are. The idea of what is oicially deined as illegal or criminal" leaves out a large secion of society. White collar crime illegal aciviies of people within insituions whose purpose is personal proit & gain through legiimate business transacions. Individual exploitaion of insituional posiion using your power to take advantage of others. He focused heavily on cooperate crime, however not all white-collar criminals are corporate criminals. Diference is in who beneits from the illegal acivity. White collar individual corporate corporaion. 2 most common forms of occupaional crime are fraud and thet. Corporate crime socially injurious acts commited by companies to further their business interests: General public consumers target of corporate crime. Employees as target of corporate crime (criical criminologists). Occupaional death is the 3rd leading cause of death in canada.