CRIM 3652 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Participant Observation, Corporate Crime, Criticism Of Wikipedia
14 Oct 2016
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Ethnographies of crime and policing test #1 study sheet. The crimes of the powerful are far more costly, examples: corporate crimes cause more victims than the regular street crime. Rather than just one victim there are multiple victims left in debt, jobless. These committed by states and corporations have greater economic, physical and social costs than conventional criminals. White-collar crime is more serious than street gang crimes. They co-produce law to benefit them, while demonizing marginalized others". The ones in power can afford good lawyers, connections, and techniques of neutralizing the crime. In the best interest of those in power it is best that their actions and methods are made invisible to avoid public being informed and aware. Secrecy is an obvious manifestation of power maintenance. Corporate and state crime is well under-documented and reported in mainstream criminology and criminal justice publishing. Hegemony-leadership or dominance of one group over all others.
