CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: American Sociological Association, Edwin Sutherland, Corporate Crime
7 Aug 2018
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Is typically committed by individual offenders, for their own personal benefit. Includes embezzlement by bank managers, fraudulent billing by doctors, embezzlement of trust funds by lawyers, etc. Is committed by a corporation, or an individual acting on behalf of a corporation. Includes price-fixing, knowingly selling a hazardous product, illegal dumping of toxic waste, workplace safety violations, etc. Fraud: ma(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:862)fraud(cid:863) (cid:272)ases i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)hite-collar criminals or corporations are settled in civil court, where the plaintiff stands a better chance of being recompensed for financial losses. I(cid:374) re(cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of the serious(cid:374)ess of (cid:862)fraud(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)itted (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)hite-collar offenders, in 2011, the. Conservative government passed its standing up for victims of white-collar crime act, imposing mandatory minimum sentences of two years for frauds in excess of one million dollars (puri & In 1975, a voluntary disclosure program launched by the us securities and exchange.
