SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kpmg, Price Fixing, Labeling Theory
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No, they are no less a threat to society and they show white-collar crimes cost countries a lot more. In early 2000, canadians pay as much as 20 billion a year in increased taxes and consumer goods due to white-collar crime. Numbers for property damage and theft is 6 billion: workplace stats suggest white collar and corporate crime causes at least as many deaths. Interactionist theories: focus on meaning first off and symbol! How the way we categorize and interpret the world is created through interaction/ see crime similarily as in critical theory. Emphasis is different, the elites doing this define the crime. Interactionist is the process of meaning making, both take constructionist perspectives, meaning of crime is defined by people: labeling theory: focuses on the process of labeling people and acts as deviant. Workplace deaths with working with asbestos that for them to just ay the fines!
