PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Advance-Fee Scam, Financial Crimes
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Economic crime = criminal offences where the primary motivation is for economic gain (freeman, 1996) To combat economic crime, a partnership must be formed across various levels of government, law enforcement, business and private sectors e. g. the reporting economic crime online (recol) group: joint forces the. Royal canadian mounted police (rcmp), the ontario provincial police (opp) and the internet fraud complaints centre (ifcc) White-collar crime = occupational crime vs corporate crime (crime focused on individuals vs organizations) Occupational crimes = offences committed against businesses and government by perpetrators with a higher" social status e. g. offenses include expense account fraud, tax evasion. White-collar criminals tend to work for the institution they are stealing from. Government inspectors (federal, provincial, municipal) are responsible for the enforcement of corporate offences; they have less authority to investigate than police. Common characteristics of white-collar criminals = high status, respectable, often male, highly educated and in an upper management position (sutherland,
