SOC224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: White-Collar Crime, U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission, Edwin Sutherland
13 Jul 2018
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Many drug companies in the us in the late 1990s were charged with infecting the blood of hemophiliacs, by collecting blood from prison populations that were at higher risk of having a blood disease. Didn"t admit, but reached an agreement in 1997 for million with victims and their families, but no american companies or ceos convicted of any wrong doing. Judgements about the criminality of the tragedy is complicated. Much of white-collar crime occurs at blurred boundaries of legal and business life. Current constructions of white-collar crimes in the united states. The cost of street-level property crimes pale in comparison to the costs of white-collar crimes committed by socially privileged thieves in the course of their business and nancial dealings. Street and suite crimes both involve acquiring other people"s money or goods by illegal means, these property crimes differ greatly in terms of offender characteristics and the ways in which crimes are committed and treated.
