CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Corporate Crime, Environment And Climate Change Canada
1 May 2018
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Corporate and White-Collar Crime February 14th 2017
Noralizatio of Deiae:
1. Crie, la, ad poer
2. Ability of corporations to normalize their activities and resist or avoid the application of
criminal law
- Resist application of law to normalize deviance
- Laundering of corporate criminality
3. Normalization of deviance as a reflection of corporate influence on both the formation
and enforcement of law
- Passage of legislation: Ability to not introduce or establish laws
- Enforced/Implementation: not introduce or establish law but to control and resist
the activates of regulatory agencies
4. Language of corporate wrongdoing and the flexibility of law
- 2 descriptors to distinguish between activates: criminal or no criminal
- availability of range of descriptors to explain other misdeeds
o Refer to them as unethical
o Corporate crimes distinguished as offences
o Several legal options:
▪ Criminal
▪ Civil
▪ Regulatory
▪ Ethical Violation
o Corporate misdeeds are sometimes less criminal
5. De-criminalization of corporate rie: ojetie har s pereied har
- Objective Harm: High
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- Perceived Harm: Low
White-Collar vs Corporate Crime
1. White-Collar Oupatioal Crie: a riial at oitted i ourse of oe’s
occupation for the benefit of the individual
- Misappropriation of funds – fake eployer’s salary into a perso’s account
2. Corporate (Organizational) Crime:
- A criminal act committed in the course of organizational activities for the benefit
of the corporation
3. Economic Crime:
- Economic or financial nature perpetrated by individuals and/or groups
independently of a specific occupational role or organizational function
o Receive financial bonus if employee hits targets
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