SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edwin Sutherland, White-Collar Crime, Mail And Wire Fraud
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Social control lecture 5- financial crime: edwin sutherland: Didn"t understand why people who had money were stealing, not committing crimes out of necessity. Not a victimless crime, can have a ripple effect on the economy. Differential association theory coined the term white collar crime - any kind of non violent financial crime crime commited by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation: offender based definition: Offender looks at the characteristics of the people, high status power and respectability importance of status and position violation of trust commited by an individual or organization in the course of employment. Data on anti-trust securities fraud, tax fraud, bank fraud, credit fraud, mail fraud, bribery, false claims. Problem of this definition it is a definition of people who are caught self-fulfilling prophecy: offence based definition: Nature of the illegal act rather than the characteristics of the offender.
