Exam 4 - White Collar & Organized Crime Flashcards
What is Sutherland’s concept of white-collar crime?
- Must be committed by a person of respectability and high social status
- Cannot be murder, intoxication, or other related crimes discussed in class.
Who can commit white-collar crime, according to Sutherland?
- People of high respectability and high social status in the course of his/her occupation
Why was Sutherland’s conceptualization of white-collar crime controversial?
It posited that crime was a phenomenon of the “lower class”
What are Edelhertz typologies of white-collar crime?
Personal Crimes
Abuse of Trust
Business Crimes
Con games
What are personal crimes (Edelhertz)?
Crimes committed by persons operating on an individual, ad hoc basis, or personal gain in a business context.
What are Abuse of Trust crimes? (Edelhertz)
Committed by those operating inside businesses, govt, professional capacity, or etc. in violation of their duty of loyalty and fidelity to an employer or client
What are business crimes (Edelhertz)?
Crimes incidental to or in furtherance of business operations, but not central to business operations
What are con games (Edelhertz)?
White-collar crime as a business, or as the central activity of the business.
What are white-collar crimes as “Elite Deviance”?
Crime committed by elites themselves for personal gain, for by their employees for the purpose of enhancing their power, profitability, or influence of the organization involved.
What are the three definitions of white collar/organized crime?
Occupational
Corporate
Government
What is occupational crime?
A violation of trust by an employee, usually for personal financial gain.
Ex. Employee theft, embezzlement, insider trading, fraud
What is corporate crime?
Offenses committed primarily to enhance the financial and competitive interests of the corporation
Ex. False advertising, consumer fraud, antitrust violations, price fixing, environmental crimes.
What are government crimes?
Illegal activities engaged in by agents of the government to protect or advance the political position of an administration, regime, or ruling party
Ex. Abuse of power, bribery/corruption, concealing illegal activity
What is the typology of occupational offenses?
Organizational occ. crime - Benefit of employing org.
State Authority occ. crime - By officials through state authority
Professional occ. crime - By profs. in capacity as prof (ex. lawyer)
Individual occ. crime - By individuals as individuals (tax evas. etc
What are the two criteria for white-collar crime by the National White Collar Crime Center?
- Status of the offender w/in the organization or community
- The use of deception