SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corporate Crime, Glass Ceiling, Peer Pressure

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Street crime (conventional)-crime that is committed by the common person: offenders- anyone can commit it, but typically those of the lower classes are more likely to be arrested or charged. System wants to charge lower class because it causes less problems for them: responsibility individual is responsible, 2 categories-violent crime-(homicide, assault), and property crime (theft, b&e, criminal justice system-bulk of system deals with street crime. Typically police are more equipped to deal with it. White collar crime: offenders-tend to be middle and upper classes, occupation- sutherland says it"s a part of their occupation. Usually a prestigious occupation: 2 categories individual (corporation is victim) corporate crime (consumers are victims, perps are organizations. , criminal justice system-rarely deal with it. Correlate-variables that have a relationship to conventional crime. Correlates of crime-phenomenon"s associated with criminal activity. Crime- crime is a young man"s game people who are most likely to break the law are young people.