Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sydney, Nova Scotia, White-Collar Crime, World Bank High-Income Economy
9 Apr 2016
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State: a disinct set of insituions that has the authority to make the rule which govern a society. The state includes such insituions as: naional and local councils of elected representaives (such as a parliament, civil service or state bureaucracy, judiciary (the legal system, the armed forces/police. Distribuion (social services: use of resources, direcion of public policy. Declining corporate taxes (28% in 2000, 15% today) Donaing large amounts of money to candidates they favour: law. Corporaions remain less accountable for crimes than individuals. Environmental and health efects of steel producion in sydney, nova. White-collar crime: illegal acts commited by person of respectability and high social status : primary vicim: public, ex: embezzlement, false adverising, tax evasion, insider stock trading, fraud, unfair labour pracices, copyright infringement, etc. Difers from street crime, which includes pickpockeing, arson, breaking and entering, robbery, and assault: primary vicim: individual, quick inancial gains. White collar crime costs society more than street crime yet remains under-prosecuted and under-convicted.
