Overview of the Week
This week we will be covering two topics. First, we have a special presentation on White Collar and Corporate Crimes and then we will continue with criminological theories, focusing on the social learning theories
White Collar and Corporate Crimes
Coined in 1939 by Professor Edwin H. Sutherland, “white-collar is a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in
the course of his occupation.” White collar crimes include a full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals. These are not victimless crimes because these frauds destroy a company, devastate families by wiping out their life savings, or cost investors billions of dollars (or even all three), and deplete public funds for education, health, and infrastructure. There is no one measure of white collar crimes, and the FBI admits that the true extent and expense of white collar crime is unknown.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the criteria experts use to distinguish white-collar crime from traditional forms of offending, as well as criticisms of these criteria.
- Discuss the ways in which corporate crimes impact society in terms of physical and property damage, as well as weakening the moral fabric of society.
- Classify the various types of white-collar crime.
- Explain some of the theoretical explanations for white-collar crime.
Workflow
Readings
FBI (2021). White-Collar Crime: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime
Chapter 2 in Mathew, S. K. (2020). You just got cheated: Understanding white-collar crime. ProQuest Ebook Central http://ebookcentral.proquest.com
Get the chapter here:
You_Just_Got_Cheated_Understanding_White-Collar_Cr…_-_Chapter_2_What_Constitutes_White-Collar_Criminality
Tombs, S., & Whyte, D. (2020). The Shifting Imaginaries of Corporate Crime. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 1(1), 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/2631309X19882641
Get the article here:
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