Sociology 2266A/B Quiz: White Collar Crime

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2266A/B
• Professor: Lisa Lyons

Document Summary

This new branch of criminology has been termed zemiology. Inter alia, it includes: corporate misconduct white collar crime", workplace injury health and safety crime", state harm state crime, environmental damage environmental (green) crime, poverty. Socially harmful actions such as pollution of the environment, the production of hazardous substances, the manufacture and sale of unsafe products, and so on, cause more death, injury and harm than all the violent crime combined (fattah, 1986: 5). Britain"s worst builders": more recent examples? in organised crime. The long good friday". in organised crime associated with specific ethnic groups: eg. the mafia, the triads, the yakuza, and in high profile cases and individuals. Why: the paradise papers have once again revealed the ingenuity and energy the super- rich are willing to deploy to keep their money away from the taxman. By illuminating the scale of this injustice, journalists have provided an invaluable service.