SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White-Collar Crime, Edwin Sutherland, Halliburton

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

Deviance that can only take place because of organizations (going beyond. Basic: deviance that can only take place in an organizational environment. Best: deviance by the organization, by people on its behalf. Usually has a segregated social audience (judged differently by those in and outside of organization) Individual misusing position in organization (abuse of trust or power) Collective group acting together (for the organization and themselves together) Embezzlement, all cover ups, police torture, bribery, corporate crime, safety violations, racial profiling. Edwin sutherland in 1939 defined white collar crime: proposed its study using differential association but the real causes for organizational deviance are not individuals but aspects of the whole organization. Crime by the corporation as an organization is corporate crime. All corporate crime is white-collar, but not all white-collar crime is corporate. Organizational deviance (including corporate crime) needs to be explained by institutional factors. Bernie madeoff- embezzled 65 billion dollars over decades.