SOC446H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Making Money, The Dealer, Blue-Collar Worker
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Chapter 4: structure: part time crimes at wellbread. Chapter 4 looks briefly at the wider industrial and economic context of occupational theft, and at forms of part-time" crime at wellbread"s. Scope: depends on the size and type of round given to roundsmen. Workers need to adjust fiddling based on the type and size of round they get, if they don"t they will face problems. The management wants workers to fiddle customers but not the company. There are four different sorts of deliberate loss: non-inventorized stock: eg. plastic bags, clip boards, misaccounted loss: due to classification error. Say its missing but give no reason why. Sometimes insiders with access to the inventories also steal (they alter totals to hide their theft: unaccounted loss: they are invisible to inventory search. Because customers have no collective (and often no individual) audit, they rarely discover their losses.