CRM 1300 Lecture : 5. White-Collar, Corporate and Organized Crime.docx

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White collar criminals: are mainly hidden from criminologists, cause high financial cost, damage social institutions and social relations. Committed by individuals who use their marketplace for their criminal activity. Tax evasion, credit card fraud, bankruptcy fraud. 1997, 57% of companies claimed being cheated by their own employees. Us: over 20 million serious injuries, over 30,000 deaths/year. Internet crimes: pornography, stalking, hate crimes, get rich quick scams, computer crime. Corporate culture: encourages excessively high goals while tolerant of employee deviance. Braithwaite (1987: corporate climate conductive to crime is the result of poor relations with government. Shame of discovery: provides definitions unfavourable to law-breaking, internal (whistle-blowing) or external (inspections) Benson and moore (1992: 3 types of white-collar offenders impulsive, low self-control. Small and medium-sized business are major targets for enforcement. Largely dependent on government administrators/inspectors: government cutbacks, complaint-based rather than proactive. Rcmp: focuses more on organized crime (bikers and drug trafficking) Security measures: contract security personnel, closed circuit tv.

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