hs811 white collar crime

Sutherland
-Favour higher-privileged social class
-Insufficient info based on crimes of higher classes
[prevailing theories of crime which focussed on lower class groups]

Socially wrong if left ignored
-distrust & disrespect of higher class
-encourage law-breaking of lower class
-produce diversity & social Disorganization

Critics felt not crime since not prosecuted but Sutherland argue
-indeed crime becuase against the law and were documented
-but judged under court not criminal court

Data
70 largest company USA
-Law enforcers do not "fit" them as criminal
-High-status people
-not "real criminal"

Cultural Transmission == Differential Association [ From Shaw & McKay]
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Learnt crime from society

For Company
-Misrepresent financial statements

Against Company
-Embezzlement
-"Mafia"