SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sodomy, Bernard Madoff, Hierarchical Organization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

Document Summary

This document includes notes on the following: unit 08 (courselink, chapter 10 (textbook) Business ethics and moral motivation: a criminological perspective by joseph heath. White collar crime: broad category of nonviolent offenses committed in a business or a. approximately the same motivations that individuals commit other infractions elsewhere. Individual acts: individuals committing acts of crime and deviance for. Example: embezzlement, fraud. a. corporation: organizational deviance: deviant acts perpetrated not by individuals but by whole organizations - in particular corporate crime. Corporate crime: the whole set of crimes perpetrated by the corporation for the. Example: over-charging, breaching of environmental and safety laws, cover-ups of the dangerous of products being sold and attempts to form illegal monopolies. The relative deviance status and stigma of white collar crime is much less than that of street and primal crimes. Corporate crime is crime committed in business for the sake of the corporation with.