CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Telemarketing Fraud, Corporate Crime

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Discrimination of corporate crime: objective harm vs. social construction. Normalization of deviance : crime, law and power . The connections between then and the sets of interests that are in criminal law: ability for corporations to normalize their activities and resist or avoid the application of criminal law. Development of law = through political lobbying; money donates to politicians. Implementation of law = if rules are not implemented, then how are they implemented: language of corporate wrongdoing and the flexibility of law. Their actions are defined as offences, violations, rather than as crimes . Rather than corporation crime being characterized as immoral, they are referred to unethical. Corporations can be perused through contract law: de-criminalization for corporate crime: objective harm versus perceived harm. Not to take it all that seriously: white collar (occupational) crime: A criminal act committed in course of one"s occupation for the benefit of the individual.