01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White-Collar Crime, Motor Vehicle Theft, Blue-Collar Worker
9 Oct 2018
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2011 ncvs percent of crimes reported to police. Rape has low reporting rate despite its severity: variations in clearance rates. Clearance rate = percentage of reported crimes cleared by arrest or exceptional means: murder has best clearance rate vs. motor vehicle theft has worst, violent crimes generally have better clearance rates than property crimes. Why: violent crimes are more likely to have witnesses, murders are crimes of passion, more logical, more resources to solve violent crimes. White collar & political crimes to do crime: but, criminologists estimate that white collar crimes committed by the affluent actually cause more damage to society than conventional part i crimes. Critics of sutherland"s definition said: white collar criminals are not (cid:498)real criminals(cid:499) b/c not convicted in criminal courts. Estimated annual number of deaths from street crime vs. white collar crime. 2011 ucr (part i crimes) - murder & non-negligent manslaughter - 14,612. White collar/corporate crime - annual deaths - 102,000.
