SOC 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: White-Collar Crime, Control Fraud, Welfare Fraud
Document Summary
Least understood but most consequences: leads to distrust of gov, reading focuses not on welfare fraud, con games, or credit card fraud, but on legit orgs and respectable ppl, crimes based off laws. Involve deception, while trying to appear legit: economic or violent consequence. For corporate or personal gain: one def said it was based out of a legit organization which had serious consequences only, one disregarded laws and focused more on morals. Further business interests but not goal of business: con games, criticism. Illegal act by illegal group: catches low level criminals and too little powerful. Focuses only on money not, pollution, unsafe working conditions, etc: no specific list of offenses so leaves room for interpretation, theoretical dev, theories that account for regular street crime do not work, state corporate crime perspective. Intersection of private capital and governmental interests: methods of harm.
