SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Police Misconduct, Edwin Sutherland, Finance Capitalism
8 Dec 2014
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Chapter 1: crime in the context of organizations and institutions. White collar crime: crime that is committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation- edwin sutherland. Sutherland wanted criminologists to bring an end to focusing on socially disadvantaged. White-collar criminals; respectable social status and power, held high in regard and general public. Examples of harm done by white-collar criminals: misrepresentation in financial statements of corporations, manipulation in stock exchange, commercial bribery, misrepresentation in advertising and salesmanship, embezzlement and misappropriation of funds. Sutherland focused on 1 type of white collar crime: corporate crime: both take place within the business world, difference: who benefits from the illegal crime. White-collar crime: individual corporate: the corporation individuals who commit crime within the course of their employment roles art engaging in occupational crime: two most common forms are left and fraud.
