Sociology 3357F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Corporate Crime, Workplace Deviance, Community Integration
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Criminaloid concept it focuses on businessmen who engage in harmful acts under the mask of. White collar crime was vaguely and loosely defined by sutherland. Some argued that the concept only minimally reflected reality. Some argued that sutherland"s definition underestimated the influence of poverty on. Sutherlands research focus on all sorts of offenses including workplace death, fraud by mechanics, deception by shoe salesman. It"s argued that sutherlin committed a bait and switch in defining one type of crime, but actually researching another variety. Some legal scholars contended that the concept was to sociological at the expense of legal definitions of white-collar opening. Two some white collar crimes should be nearly defined to include those behaviors that: legal ambiguity are criminally illegal, policy ambiguity. Referred to the losses that individual victims or business lose due to white-collar crime. Entails the amount of losses incurred by society from white-collar crime.