SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
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Research paper (25%) - nov 14th: can choose from outline or new topic, 5 academic sources. Test 1(25%) - oct 24th: sa + mc. Test 2(25%) - dec 5th: sa + mc. Edward sutherland 30s: ppl committing crime, but rich/ had money so doesn"t make sense. Differential association: you are who you hang out with: corporate crime. Company as a whole, industry, can be entire company. Victims usually everywhere like monopoly, and when companies decide costs more & it"s illegal we pay for it. Ex: different then street crime because not committing out of necessity. Enron: victims white colour crime, not just employees. Enron was 60-70 billion in debt: 20,000 employees, energy. We"ll shut down plants, hide losses: google or apple of the day. Corporate can also be environmental disasters safety ex: rana plaza, or bc oil spill. Difference between white collar crime and corporate crime is that white.
