SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Environmental Crime, False Advertising, Price Fixing
15 Sep 2016
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3 - individual exploitation of position (government: kickbacks, bribes. 4 - influence peddling and bribery (government, criminal justice system, business) 5 - embezzlement and employee fraud (blue-collar fraud, management fraud) 6 client frauds (insurance fraud, credit card fraud, medical insurance fraud) 7 corporate crime (price fixing, illegal restraint of trade, false advertising, environmental crime) Internet crimes: pornography (its child pornography if you are under 18), stalking, hate crimes, get rich quick scams. Computer crimes: theft of services (ex stealing neighbors wi-fi), use of data, fraud to obtain assets, theft (of software, downloading music), viruses (over 56000 in 2000). Another way of describing deviance is something that is in negotiation, i. e. smoking marijuana, refugee crisis. With government cutbacks, inspectors become withdrawn; inspectors also can"t be everywhere at all times. System is largely complaint-based rather than proactive. Rcmp more focused on organized crime" i. e. bikers, drug trafficking, terrorism. Traub (1996) gave us a typology: security measures: contract security personnel, closed circuit.
