CC212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White-Collar Crime, Moral Panic, Profit Margin
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Instead of the people, corporate types will focus on the corporation. Talk about what they do and have done for the company (mostly about the ceos) Sometimes it is illegal but rarely enforced people who (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t afford it de(cid:272)ades ago, took till the(cid:374) for the effe(cid:272)ts to show. Wlu study (eglin and hester: kitchener, on drug study, who looks like a drug dealer, participants relied on stereotypes of street criminal. If people look respectable, no one expects them to be criminals. Acts of wcc deal with the following: are atypical of street level crime, role of trust and criminality. Some wcc is not the realm of the courts. Criminologists do agree that wcc: occurs in a legitimate business context. Is not direct intentional violence they could say it was an accident, no intent to commit the crime. But on the other hand, it is intentional.
