CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White-Collar Crime, Differential Association, Edwin Sutherland
30 Mar 2019
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Involve illegal enterprise crimes: corrupt, taint the free-market system, can include violence, some enterprises include both white-collar and organized crime. White collar crime: how serious is it, much higher cost than street crime, 2011: small businesses in canada lost 3. 2 billion dollars to workplace fraud; In the u. s. (2015): over 2. 9 million non-fatal workplace injuries, over 4000 deaths in 2014: receive light penalties; It"s an international problem: the concept of white-collar crime has led criminologists to reconsider some basic assumptions. Edwin sutherland (1930"s) differential association theory: focused on corporate criminality; "crime problems": white collar crime offences breed distrust in economic social institutions. White-collar crime: white collar crime victims include the public, modern definition of white-collar crime is much broader; Includes middle-income earner, corporate execs: corporate crimes (e. g. anti-trust violations, price fixings, false advertising), criminal conspiracy designed to improve profitability of the corporation.
