Sociology 3357F/G Lecture 3: crime and deviance in workplace Theories of White Collar Crime Jan 22
18 Aug 2015
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Why do we see increase in crime or at other times a decrease: situational factors are very important, a third answer to the question is that criminalization must be explained first, the process whereby particular activities, entities and individuals come to be defined as criminal focuses on the origins of wcc, a substantial explanation for white collar crime must address each of these matters, ideally it must explore a variety of interrelationships involved in white collar crime as criminality, as an event and as criminalized activity, an important issue in the explanation of white collar crime is the appropriate explanatory level, macro level focuses on conditions within a society or organization that promote white collar crime (broader/ bigger picture, micro level focuses on the offenders and their individual propensity and choices they make in crime (individual level, meso level mid point.
