SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Real Crime
Document Summary
Make the shift from law as a technical task, theres a spirit of the law that is there. Goode (2011: 8 characteristics of corporate crime, 1. Made up of complex or technical actions: 2. It is often intermingled with legitimate behaviour: 3. Victimization tends to be diffuse harm gets to several victims: 4. Monetary sums quit successful corporate criminal takes more money then every penny in a robbery in a given year: 5. Rarely prosecuted penalties are quite light , very likely for an lengthy prison sentence: 6. Does not fit our stereotype of real crime: 7. The media tends not to cover it the accused as to be prominent or the sum has to be huge, it has implicated a lot of people which makes it the centre for the media: 8. Wcc is less entertaining, it is not bias towards the powerful, but it tends to go along the way because of the way media is set up.
