CC212 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Small Business, Malingering, Internal Revenue Service
Document Summary
In 1939, edwin sutherland coined the term white-collar crime in his address to the american. Previous attention focused on street crime murder, sexual assault etc. Financial costs: direct costs up to 25 times those of conventional crimes. Estimates in the u. s. suggest that wcc may cost up to billion per year. Toxic waste dumping, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions are responsible for many deaths, injuries, and illnesses incurred by employees & members of the public. Erosion of trust in political and financial institutions. White collar crime: relatively low level of attention can be explained by following, complexity of many white-collar crimes, media & public"s preoccupation with conventional, as opposed to wcc. Lack of familiarity of many criminologists with administrative agencies that regulate wcc. E. a ross & criminaloids: ross wrote book entitled sin and society in 1907, brought attention to crimes of the business leaders, he referred to these business people as criminaloids .
