SOC 2106 Lecture 8: WHITE COLLAR CRIME
10 Apr 2017
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Thursday november 12 2015 and monday november 16, 2015 and thursday. Edwin sutherland (1883-1950: focused on corporate crime, was a trailblazer; before that crime was focused on the lower classes, (cid:862)white-(cid:272)ollar(cid:863) refers to lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc. White collar criminals are mainly hidden from criminologists: cause high financial cause, damages social institutions and social relations, white collar crime, committed by individuals who use the market place for their criminal activity. Middle class deviance: tax evasion, credit card fraud, bankruptcy fraud. Investment fraud: medical fraud, business fraud, embezzlement, occupational crime, employee theft, corporate crime, false advertising, state corporate crime, kickback. Moore (1980: stings and swindles (financial and religious, chiseling (occupational or professional), securities fraud (insider trading) Types of white collar crimes: individual exploitation of position, government bribes, kickbacks. Industry kickbacks, soliciting bribes: influence peddling and bribery, government, criminal justice system, business, embezzlement and employee fraud, blue-collar crime fraud, management fraud, client frauds.
