CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Corporate Crime, Femicide, Edwin Sutherland

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Lara Karaian

Document Summary

White collar crime: defined as crimes committed by people of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. Example: theft at work, fraud, corruption, environmental crime. Rob you with his pen rather then his gun. : the nature of crime is determined by the social responses to it. We don"t label the respectable as criminals, we claim that it is. White-collar crime is more damaging to society then crimes in the streets. How does it differ from other crimes: happens in secret/private, tends to involve an abuse of trust, often involves some form of insider knowledge, often goes undetected, no immediate physical threat, determination of responsibility may be problematic. Marginalization of the study of white collar crime: there is less social and political interest and is covered much less in media. White-collar crime is also not captured in crime statistics. Cost of white collar crime: estimated 250$ billion a year in the us.