SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Corporate Crime, Takers, Unearth
26 Nov 2012
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Chapter 13 crimes of power: white- collar, corporate, and organized crime. Crimes of the marketplace known as enterprise crimes, which are divided into. : using computer technology for illicit gain, such as fraud, and for. : illegal acts that capitalize on a person"s status in the. Crime committed by a gang, e. g, drug trafficking. An illegal act committed by nonphysical means to obtain money or property or to obtain business or personal advantage. Today"s definition of white-collar crime includes all individuals who use the marketplace for their criminal activity, from middle-income canadians to corporate titans. White-collar individuals use their positions of trust in business or government to commit crimes, such as pilfering, soliciting bribes or kickbacks, and embezzlement. Other white-collar criminals victimize the public, for example in land swindles, securities thefts etc. Also some white-collar criminals become involved in criminal conspiracies designed to improve the market share or profitability of their corporations such as false advertising and price fixing.
