SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Organized Crime
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Bad apples narrative: some people who have done something bad to other people. Executive disengagement: not caring how a result is achieved as long as it is achieved. Routine non-conformity: what solutions exist to the problems passed by corporations. Whiter than white collar crime (mcbarnett: another tier of white collar crime, behaviour seen as clever and not deviant, creative compliance. Not following spirit of the law but following the letter of the law: tax avoidance vs tax evasion, fraud insurance. Make the shift from law as a technical task to something substantive, to compliance with the rule of law. Get people to think about principles of law. Those who are convicted of white collar crime, unemployed at time of arrest, Goode (2011: corporate crime, made up of complex or technical actions. Some practices just go to far: victimization tend to be diffuse. Harm is spread out across victims: monetary sums quite large.
