SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: White-Collar Crime, Mail And Wire Fraud, Edwin Sutherland
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In scene from shameless they were collecting social security checks after the person has died. Impact: company went bankrupt, employees" pension plans were tied with stock, so pension gone, assets were frozen, all the other companies enron owned also went under, lost 74 billion, owed 60 billion to creditors. Bad apples: bad apples is about the individuals, bad barrels is about the culture of the business or industry. Social bonds: attachment to other, commitment to social norms, conventional behavior and conventional lines of action. Identity neutralization, issues of identity: wanted to retain pro-social sense of self, used techniques of neutralization to cast behavior as non-criminal, so did not need to accept self-identifyer of criminal, vocabularies of motive, oversights, mistakes, technical violations. Neutralizations: still upstanding moral beings, denial of responsibility, acting under orders, cost cutting. Corporation: a company or group authorized to act as a single entity recognized by law, regulated company.
