CRIM 4400 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - White-Collar Crime, Sutherland, Social Psychology
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
i. Interest in WCC is on the rise currently
a. Economic crisis in 08 and the role of bankers in causing it
b. Consumer protection movement
i. As consumers you have rights to not be hurt by those who sell us products
c. Popular preoccupation with public health
ii. WCC an umbrella concept
a. Different names in social sciences
i. Bank fraud, bribery, stealing from the job, antitrust violations, etc.
b. Can be both violent or purely economic
iii. Defining WCC
a. Behavior similar to WCC is found throughout recorded history
i. 1st regulated WCC was marketplace offenses in early England
1. Engrossing: wholesale purchasing for the purpose of reselling at a
monopoly price
2. Forestalling: selling substandard products and charging excessive prices
3. Things that removed fairness from the market
ii. Industrial Era
1. Exploitation of the poor and of the consumers moved into the shadows
eig aouflaged y….
a. Remoteness
i. Production happens behind closed doors, away from
the consumers (not a neighborhood artisan like before)
which allows for people to do shady shit
b. Diffusion of the inflicted harm
i. Mass scales of production leads to mass scale of harm
c. Obscuring of the source of the harm
i. Have a lot of people and division of labor, so if
something goes wrong, its not clear who fucked up
iii. Rise of Awareness
1. Late 1800's- early 1900's was the triumph of laisse faire capitalism
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a. That changed in the 1910's
2. Muckrakers: writers who invented investigative journalism
a. Died out with the WWI
iv. Academic Interest
1. Edwin Sutherland, 1938
a. Coined the term WCC, denounced perpetrators, anticipated
that they might have different causes, recognized different
patterns of punishment
b. Classical definition --> a crime committed by a person of
respectability or a high social status in the course of his
occupation
i. Social class of the offender and occupation as definitive
features of this type of crime
ii. Those who commit these crimes are also the same ones
that right the laws
iii. Talks about a class bias --> the wealthier the better you
do in court
v. 1939-1955: Rise in research
1. Sutherland published White Collar Crime in 1949
a. Research by his students focused too much on psychology of
the individuals than the sociology or system
vi. 1955-1965: Standstill
1. Legacy of Senator McCarthy
a. Beginning of the red scare, people too scared to question
authorities
2. Economic upheaval
3. Denial of all things Soviet
vii. 1960s-1970s: Resurgence
1. Conflict theories become popular
2. Disgruntlement over Vietnam
3. Underdog groups mobilizing
4. Ralph Nadar: Unsafe at Any Speed
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Document Summary
Interest in wcc is on the rise currently. Economic crisis in 08 and the role of bankers in causing it. As consumers you have rights to not be hurt by those who sell us products. Popular preoccupation with public health: wcc an umbrella concept. Bank fraud, bribery, stealing from the job, antitrust violations, etc. Behavior similar to wcc is found throughout recorded history. 1st regulated wcc was marketplace offenses in early england. Engrossing: wholesale purchasing for the purpose of reselling at a monopoly price. Forestalling: selling substandard products and charging excessive prices. Exploitation of the poor and of the consumers moved into the shadows (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:272)a(cid:373)ouflaged (cid:271)y . Production happens behind closed doors, away from the consumers (not a neighborhood artisan like before) which allows for people to do shady shit. Diffusion of the inflicted harm: mass scales of production leads to mass scale of harm.
