White collar crime Flashcards
What is white collar crime?
Financially motivated
Non-violet
What are the two types of White collar crime?
1) occupational
2) cooperate
What is occupational white collar crime?
committed by employees e.g. stealing
What is cooperate white crime?
committed by businesses or cooperation’s with a motivate of profit.
What is state crime?
Illegal/deviant activities committed by state agencies to achieve government policies.
3 examples of state crime
war crimes
corruption
genocide
What isa the Marxists perspective regarding white collar crime?
1) legal system favours elite
2) capitalism breeds crime by promoting greed, competition and inequality.
What is box’s study regarding white collar crime called?
Power, crime and mystification
What year is Box’s study ‘power, crime and mystification’
1983
What are the two key points of Box’s study ‘power, crime and mystification’
1) crimes of the powerful
2) ideological mystification
Explain crimes of the powerful - Box’s study ‘power, crime and mystification’
1) under reported
2) leniently punished
Explain ideological mystification - Box’s study ‘power, crime and mystification’
CJS downplay the severity of white collar crimes to protect the interests of the powerful.
What are the three key points of Tombs 1999 study ?
1) magnitude of harm
2)lack of scrutiny
3) regulatory challenges
Explain magnitude of harm - Tombs 1999
negative impact of cooperation crime exceeds those of conventional crime.
Explain lack of scrutiny - Tombs 1999
1) lack of criminological attention to cooperation crime
2) state reluctant to fund
3) still profit of business
What are the three main points of Goldstraw and Whites 2010 argument regarding white collar crime.
1) offenders perspective ( insight into motives, opportunities and rationalisation of behaviours)
2) character and social standings ( actions justified to preserve self-image and social standing)
3) not enough crime prevention for WCC
