SYG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Insider Trading, Embezzlement, Corporate Crime
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Deviance: definition: any behavior that does not conform to your society"s norms, socially constructed what is considered deviant varies across time & place. Social control: definition: ways we promote conformity to norms, external: sanctions (formal/informal rewards & punishments); threat of punishment. Crime in the u. s: statistics f. b. i. Uniform crime reports (volunteered by police depts. across the u. s. ) **fudging numbers: criticism of ucr statistics, problem: ignores different types of crime. -street crimes (crimes committed against a person or their property) -white collar crimes (crimes committed by upper class; usually to do w/ business activities = 27022), e. g. : tax fraud/evasion, embezzlement, insider trading. -corporate crime (committed by business themselves), e. g. : selling faulty products, workplace discrimination, hazardous working conditions. -monetary: white collar & corporate crime costs over billion (probably more?) -lives: every year in the u. s. over 5x more people are killed from hazardous working conditions than are murdered: result: inaccurate picture of criminals .
