White Collar & Corp Crime

Question 1

Reiman & Leighton on corporate crime

Answer 1

• high-class crime isn’t treated like and offence unlike “ street crime “ like assault so things like tax evasion get a more forgiving view from the CJS

Question 2

Sutherland
classification of corp and white collar crime

Answer 2

• occupational - done by employee for themselves
• corporate - done for the organisation

Question 3

Tombs and his types of corp crime

Answer 3

• Financial
• Against consumers / employers / environment
• state corporate - e.g private corporations in war

Question 4

What is abuse of trust ?

Answer 4

• Corrubine - professionals are trusted by us allowing them to abuse our trust and commit crimes - e.g Shipman doctor

Question 5

What are reasons for the invisibility of corporate crime ?

Answer 5

• Media - focus on w/c crime

• Complex - Police may be understaffed

•De labelling - corp crime gets filtered

• under reported

• political will - being “ tough on crime “ only applies to street crime