Crimes Of Powerful

Question 1

White collar crime definition

Answer 1

Crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status

Question 2

Occupational crime definition:

Answer 2

Committed by employees simply for their own personal gain ( stealing from company)

Question 3

Corporate crime definition:

Answer 3

Committed by employees for oraganisation in pursuit of goals. (Miss selling products to increase company profits)

Question 4

Explain the scale and types of corporate crime:

Answer 4

Financial crimes

Crimes against consumers

Crimes against employees

Crimes against environment

State corporate crime

Question 5

Invisibility of corporate crime;

Answer 5

The media

Lack of political will

Crimes often complex

De labelling

Under reporting

Question 6

Explanations of corporate crime:

Strain theory

Answer 6

Box argues that if company cannot achieve goal of maximising profits by legal means, it may employ legal ones instead.

Question 7

Explanations of corporate crime

Differential association

Answer 7

Sutherland: sees crime as behaviour learned from others in social context.

Deviant subcultures: groups who share set of norms and values at wider society.

Techniques of neutralisation;
Matza argues that individuals can deviate more easily if they can produce justifications