SOC227 Chapter 17: Chapter 17
21 Jul 2015
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Chapter 17 corporate and white collar crime. The extent and nature of corporate and white collar crime. Crimes against public: business price fixing, false advertising, individual fraud and deception of patients, charges, mal practice. Crimes within the organization: offences against organization stealing by employees, offences against employees violation of workplace law, labour law, harassment. White-collared crime corporate behaviour that caused social harm. Sutherland def someone of high-status who commits crime in course of his occupation. White-collar: occupational crime violations of law in course of practising legitimate occupation (more for personal gain, organizational or corporate crime committed with support of formal organization to advance goals of organization. More work related deaths than murders, some believe something shady is going on one third of all injuries are due to illegal working conditions or a legal but dangerous working place very light penalties for offences. Johns-manville asbestos poisoning were told they had lung problems but not it was caused from asbestos.
