SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Differential Association, Edwin Sutherland
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Lecture 3: white collar crime 1 - defining and idenifying white collar crime (09-26-18) Law is form of social control: consensus perspective, law emerges to embody and reflect strong, majority sentiment of population, criminal acts were things worthy of punishment before codification, e. g. Murder, robbery, and assault: anglo-saxon common law. Laws against homelessness: made alms illegal illegal to give charity to working and/or able-bodied poor. Social power: ability to make choices by virtue of control over political, economic or social resources, powerful people or organizations define standards for deviance and law, lobbyist groups, e. g. Madd i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)ed (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)(cid:863) of dru(cid:374)k dri(cid:448)i(cid:374)g accepted to unaccepted: white-collar crime, not taken seriously because those who create standards are the ones guilty of the crimes. In contrast to street criminals, viewed as in need of spoils of crime: visible harms: sale of unsafe products, working conditions, pollution.
