Class power and crime

Question 1

What is white collar crime?

Answer 1

A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status during his occupation.

Question 2

What two types of crime does white collar crime fail to distinguish between?

Answer 2

Occupational crime
Corporate crime

Question 3

What is occupational crime?

Answer 3

Committed by employees for their own personal gain, which is often crime against the organisation they work for.

Question 4

What is corporate crime?

Answer 4

Committed by employees for their organisation in pursuit of its goals.

Question 5

What does Sutherland say?

Answer 5

There is an abuse of trust
professionals occupy positions of trust that give them the opportunity to violate
Greater threat than the working class street crime
Promotes distrust of key institutions and undermines fabric of society

Question 6

Why is there an invisibility of corporate crimes?

Answer 6

Lack of will to tackle it
The media
Underreporting

Question 7

How does strain theory explain corporate crime?

Answer 7

Box
If a company cannot achieve its profit goals by legal means it may lead to legal means to get there

Question 8

How does labelling theory explain corporate crime?

Answer 8

Nelken
Businesses and professionals have the power to avoid labelling
Techniques of neutralisation individuals can deviate easier if provided justification for actions

Question 9

How does differential association explain corporate crime?

Answer 9

Sutherland
If we associate with people who have criminal attitudes we will become deviant
Deviant subcultures
competitive subcultures encourage people to deviate.