CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Corporate Crime, Social Class, Mattel

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Much more costly in dollar terms than street crime. They are also dangerous occupational deaths. A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation (sutherland, 1939) Blue-collar crime / tradespeople / auto-repair shops. Only official" data on white-collar / corporate crime. No way to know if these are representative of all white-collar/ corporate crime. Lifestyle contributing factors: competitive spirit, arrogance, sense of entitlement. The corporation = a tool for obtaining money from victims. The law treats corporations as a juristic person. No requirement for bods to uncover wrongdoing. Received 2 year + 1 day sentence. Served 13 months inside (early parole granted) million from 158 victims, most elderly, widowed. Competitive market pressures companies, managers, and employees to break the law. Harsher sentences trend in the u. s. but not in canada. 2004 law changes easier to prosecute fraud-related offences. Yet the conviction record has been abysmal.