CRM/LAW C167 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Welfare Fraud, Mail And Wire Fraud, False Advertising
6 Mar 2016
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11/19/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Term coined in 1939 by edwin sutherland during his presidential address to the american sociological society. Sutherland was concerned with the criminology community"s focus on street crimes . Most of what we think of now as white collar crime was legal at the time when the ucr was developed. Three different perspectives in defining white collar crime . Type of offender: high ses (socioeconomic status, trusted occupation. Type of offense (how fbi looks at crime: economic crimes, environmental crimes (corporate, health and safety violations. Exact meaning of the term may vary from source to source. 1989 definition illegal acts which are characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and which are not dependent upon the application of threat of physical force or violence . Ucr data does not include ses or occupational information for offenders. No measures of corporate culture in the ucr.
