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White Collar Crime Political Crime

White Collar Crime Political Crime. The Other White Meat. Defining White Collar Crime. Sutherland (coined the term) Respectable/High Social Status In the course of occupation Later Occupational Crime Organizational/Corporate Crime. Occupational Crime. Employee Theft

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White Collar Crime Political Crime

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  1. White Collar CrimePolitical Crime The Other White Meat

  2. Defining White Collar Crime • Sutherland (coined the term) • Respectable/High Social Status • In the course of occupation • Later • Occupational Crime • Organizational/Corporate Crime

  3. Occupational Crime • Employee Theft • Pilferage and Embezzling • “Collective Embezzlement” • Fraud in the Professions • Medical Industry • Financial Fraud • Insider trading

  4. Organizational/Corporate Crime • Financial Crimes • Fraud, cheating, corruption… • Price fixing, price gouging, trade restraint • False Advertising • Bait and Switch • Violent Crimes • Unsafe work conditions • Unsafe products • Environmental Pollution

  5. Comparing the Harm • Property loss • “Street Crimes” (FBI data) = 15 billion • W.C.C. (from several sources) = 400 billion • Death • Street crimes = 17,000 homicides • W.C.C. • 30,000 deaths from unsafe products • 20,000 deaths from environmental pollution • 12,000 deaths from unneeded surgery

  6. Explaining White Collar Crime • Some mainstream theories don’t work • Merton’s “modes of adaptation” • Poverty, inequality, etc. • Low Self-Control ?? • Some can still work • Sutherland (corporate culture, neutralizations) • Merton/Messner&Rosenfeld/Durkheim • “Industrial Prosperity”

  7. W.C.C. and Deterrence Theory • Swift, Certain, Severe punishment will reduce crime • Must assume “rational calculator” • More applicable for street or w.c.c.? • The Irony • Some call for “self-regulation”

  8. Political Crime • Barkan, “...any illegal or socially injurious act aimed at preserving or changing the existing political and social order”’ • Crimes of the Government • Crimes against the Government

  9. Crimes by the Government • Genocide • Torture/Assassination • Surveillance/Infiltration • Legal Repression • Illegal Experiments • State-Corporate Crime • Political Corruption

  10. Crimes Against the Government • Mass Political Violence • Rebellion • Riots • Terrorism • Assassinations • Civil Disobedience • Espionage/Treason

  11. Explaining Political Crime • Political Crime as heterogeneous • Much P.C. revolves around Power • Totalitarian vs. Democratic governments

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