relationship between class and crime

Question 1

white collar crime - sutherland

Answer 1

crime commited by professionals in the course of their employment

Question 2

corporate crime

Answer 2

crime carried out by businesses or corporations, motivated by a desire for profit

Question 3

corporate crime

Answer 3

crime carried out by businesses or corporations, motivated by a desire for profits

Question 4

state crime

Answer 4

criminal acts carried out by nation states - war, genocide, arms trading

Question 5

reasons for white collar crime

Answer 5

powerful people can use financial and political power to escape arrest
- companies may not publicise employee white collar crime

Question 6

marxist view

Answer 6

criminal law is a tool of the ruling class
- creates the law to serve their own interests

Question 7

marxist view - box 1983

Answer 7

society defines criminality focusing on working class criminals
- theft most likely invovles working class shoplifter than companies charging high prices

Question 8

tombs 1999 - employer activity deaths

Answer 8

total 1316 fatal injuries
- 36 fatalities from use of flammable liquids
- 877 associated with driving in course of employment

Question 9

goldstraw-white 2010 - ‘real criminals’

Answer 9

semi structured interviews wirh 41 offenders improsioned for occupational crimes
- value of offences 18-100mil
offenders stressed that they did not hurt anyone and resisted the label of criminal

Question 10

freidrichs 1966 - risk

Answer 10

crime is a calculated gamble between changes of getting caught and punished against the reward and benefits

Question 11

explanations for white collar crime - personality based approach

Answer 11

personality types link to success
- high status occupationality brings ambitious and poor treatability
- lack of personal morality

Question 12

explanations for white collar crime - differential association sutherland and cresseys 1955

Answer 12

exposure to deviant definitions influence tendancy to be deviant