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Class Name,Instructor Name Date, Semester Criminology 2011 Chapter 13 WHITE-COLLAR AND ORGANIZED CRIME

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 13.1 • Understand the relationship between the work of Edwin Sutherland and white-collar crime. Be able to define white-collar crime, including the conceptual problems involved. 13.2 Be acquainted with the different forms of occupational crime: employee theft (pilferage and embezzling), collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry, fraud in the professions, health-care fraud (including improper billing and unnecessary surgery), financial fraud, and police/political corruption 13.3 Be familiar with organizational criminality and corporate crime, including corporate financial crime (corporate fraud, cheating and corruption, price-fixing, price-gouging, and restraint of trade), and false advertising. 13.4

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES Understand how corporate violence poses threats to health and safety: workers and unsafe work places, consumers and unsafe products (the automobile, pharmaceutical, and food industries), and environmental pollution. 13.5 Appreciate the economic and human costs of white-collar crime. 13.6 Be familiar with the various explanations of white-collar crime, including similarities and differences with street crime, cultural and social bases for white-collar crime, and lenient treatment. 13.7 13.8 Be acquainted with how white-collar crime might be reduced. Be familiar with organized crime, including its history, the alien conspiracy model (and myth), and its control. 13.9

Understand the relationship between the work of Edwin Sutherland and white-collar crime. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.1

13.1 Edwin Sutherland 5

Be able to define white-collar crime, including the conceptual problems involved. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.2

13.2 “A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”

13.2 White Collar Crime Occupational Crime Corporate Crime

Be acquainted with the different forms of occupational crime: employee theft (pilferage and embezzling), collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry, fraud in the professions, health-care fraud (including improper billing and unnecessary surgery), financial fraud, and police/political corruption Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.3

13.3 Different Forms of Occupational Crime • Collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry • Fraud in the Professions • Police/ • Political Corruption • Healthcare Fraud • Financial Fraud Employee Theft

Be familiar with organizational criminality and corporate crime, including corporate financial crime (corporate fraud, cheating and corruption, price-fixing, price-gouging, and restraint of trade), and false advertising. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.4

13.4 Organizational crime: Crime can be done by and on behalf of organizations • Organizational Crime

13.4 Cheating/ Corruption Corporate Fraud • False • Advertising Financial Crime Restraint of Trade Price Gouging Price Fixing Corporate Crimes

Understand how corporate violence poses threats to health and safety: workers and unsafe work places, consumers and unsafe products (the automobile, pharmaceutical, and food industries), and environmental pollution. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.5

13.5 Threats to Health and Safety Workers and Unsafe Work Places Consumers and Unsafe Products Environmental Pollution

Appreciate the economic and human costs of white-collar crime. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.6

13.6 Property/Street Crime $18 Billion Annually White Collar-Crime $564.5 Billion Annually vs.

Be familiar with the various explanations of white-collar crime, including similarities and differences with street crime, cultural and social bases for white-collar crime, and lenient treatment. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.7

13.7 Why Do People Engage in White-Collar Crime? Learned Behavior Self-Interest, Pursuit of Pleasure, Avoidance of Pain Disparity Between Corporate Goals and Means to Achieve Them Cultural and Social Bases Lenient Treatment

13.7 White-Collar Criminality Lower-Class Criminality vs.

Be acquainted with how white-collar crime might be reduced. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.8

13.8 • Regulatory Agencies Need Larger Budgets • More Media Attention • More Severe Punishments • Self-Regulation and Compliance Strategies Emphasizing Informal Sanctions

Be familiar with organized crime, including its history, the alien conspiracy model (and myth), and its control. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.9

13.9 Brief Early History of the Mafia Hundreds of Years Late 19th–Early 20th Century Early 20th Century Prohibition 1930s–1940s After WWII Secret Societies All Throughout Italy Italian Criminal Organizations That Came to the U.S. Included the Mafia and the Black Hand Mafia Became a Quasi-Police Organization in Italian Ghettoes Allowed Mafia to Establish Significant Wealth and Power Mafia Became Very Anti-Fascist Resumed Traditional Positions of Power in Italian Society

13.9 Curtailing Organized Crime Increase Law Enforcement Authority

13.9 Curtailing Organized Crime Reduce Economic Lure of Involvement in Organized Crime

13.9 Curtailing Organized Crime Decrease Organized Criminal Opportunity Through Decriminalization or Legalization of Activities from Which Organized Crime Draws Income

CHAPTER SUMMARY 13.1 • Understand the relationship between the work of Edwin Sutherland and white-collar crime. Be able to define white-collar crime, including the conceptual problems involved. 13.2 Be acquainted with the different forms of occupational crime: employee theft (pilferage and embezzling), collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry, fraud in the professions, health-care fraud (including improper billing and unnecessary surgery), financial fraud, and police/political corruption 13.3 Be familiar with organizational criminality and corporate crime, including corporate financial crime (corporate fraud, cheating and corruption, price-fixing, price-gouging, and restraint of trade), and false advertising. 13.4

CHAPTER SUMMARY Understand how corporate violence poses threats to health and safety: workers and unsafe work places, consumers and unsafe products (the automobile, pharmaceutical, and food industries), and environmental pollution. 13.5 Appreciate the economic and human costs of white-collar crime. 13.6 Be familiar with the various explanations of white-collar crime, including similarities and differences with street crime, cultural and social bases for white-collar crime, and lenient treatment. 13.7 13.8 Be acquainted with how white-collar crime might be reduced. Be familiar with organized crime, including its history, the alien conspiracy model (and myth), and its control. 13.9

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