CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Corporate Crime, Invisibility, White-Collar Crime

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3301
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

Upper class people commit their own forms of crime and escape arrest and conviction due to their power. Criminology"s neglect of elite forms of crime is problematic and limits the disciplines understanding of crime. They are not arrested by uniformed policemen, are not tried in criminal courts, and are not committed to prisons; this illegal behaviour receives the attention of administrative commissions and of courts operating under civil or equity jurisdiction. For this reason, such violations of law are not included in the criminal statistics nor are individual cases brought to the attention of scholars who write the theories of criminal behaviours. ". Power shapes crimes and the criminal justice system. Crime is not limited to any social class or group; people just perform different crimes based on their opportunities and the situations that they are in. The notion that the most serious crimes are committed by lower class individuals is problematic.