SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Edwin Sutherland, Money Laundering, Tax Evasion
5 Feb 2020
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By concentrating on what is officially defined as illegal or criminal, a more serious threat to society is left out. This threat is caused by corporate practices that are within the letter of the law and yet have multiple adverse social consequences . Crime is misconduct, which entails avoidable and unnecessary harm to society, which is serious enough to warrant state intervention and similar to other kinds of acts criminalized in the countries concerned or by international law . First used the term white-collar crime to mean: a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation . Crimes such as illegal dumping, toxic waste, price fixing, work-place safety violations, knowingly selling hazardous product. White collar offences in canada: fraud & market manipulation, money laundering, bribery, embezzlement, tax evasion, insider trading, price fixing, cyber crime. Socially injurious acts committed by companies to further their business interests:
