SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Formal System, Corporate Crime
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Outline: legal background, wcc definitions, enron, wcc approaches, corporate crime. Background: the law is the formal system social control. Consensus perspective: law emerges to embody and reflect the strong majority sentiment of the population. Conflict perspective: law reflects successful actions by certain groups with enough power to legislate according to their own interests. Consensus perspective: worthy of punishment before codification, murder, robbery and assault, anglo-saxon common law, common law court got it from people, things seen as wrong before even laws made, came from king henry the 2nd (1154-1189 served). King henry wanted to take power from church and made beliefs into law. Conflict perspective: vagrancy laws - being homeless, chambliss, 1964, he noticed how vagrancy laws created to protect development of industry. Initially 15 days jail, to cut off one ear, other ear and then kill you so not best time be homeless.
