SOC208H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: White-Collar Crime, Edward Alsworth Ross, Corporate Crime

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White-collar criminals are not just men in suits who steal money and don"t go to prison: they lurk in every industry and profession. She does this for financial reasons (maybe she has an agreement with the lab to split the fee when she sends business to them). The patient could get a second opinion but they put their trust in the doctor because she is an expert. The theft of public money by government officers was a crime under the athenian constitution. The bible and other ancient religious texts condemn exploitative business activities as harmful (not illegal but still morally wrong). Admonitions (warning, cautions) about the immorality of cheating in the marketplace can be found in proverbs (11:25) He justified this because many civil laws deal with practices that are fundamentally similar to criminal offenses. Excluding offenses that are pursued under civil law arbitrarily limits the range of white-collar offenses.

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