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Class Name,Instructor Name

Date, Semester

Criminology 2011

Chapter 13

WHITE-COLLAR AND ORGANIZED

CRIME

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, IncUpper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 • All Rights Reserved


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Understand the relationship between the work of Edwin Sutherland and white-collar crime.

Be able to define white-collar crime, including the conceptual problems involved.

Be acquainted with the different forms of occupational crime: employee theft (pilferage and embezzling),

collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry, fraud in the professions, health-care fraud (including improper billing and unnecessary surgery), financial

fraud, and police/political corruption

Be familiar with organizational criminality and corporate crime, including corporate financial crime (corporate

fraud, cheating and corruption, price-fixing, price-gouging, and restraint of trade), and false advertising.

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES



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Understand how corporate violence poses threats to health and safety: workers and unsafe work places,

consumers and unsafe products (the automobile, pharmaceutical, and food industries), and

environmental pollution.

Appreciate the economic and human costs of white-collar crime.

Be familiar with the various explanations of white-collar crime, including similarities and differences with street crime, cultural and social bases for white-collar

crime, and lenient treatment.

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

Be acquainted with how white-collar crime might be reduced.

Be familiar with organized crime, including its history, the alien conspiracy model (and myth), and its control.

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Learning ObjectivesAfter this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes

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Edwin Sutherland





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“A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”


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White Collar Crime

Occupational Crime

CorporateCrime

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Be acquainted with the different forms of occupational crime: employee theft (pilferage and embezzling), collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry, fraud in the professions, health-care fraud (including improper billing and unnecessary surgery), financial fraud, and police/political corruption


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Employee Theft

Healthcare Fraud

Financial Fraud

Collective embezzlement in the savings and loan

industry

Fraud in the Professions

Different Forms of Occupational Crime

Police/Political

Corruption

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Be familiar with organizational criminality and corporate crime, including corporate financial crime (corporate fraud, cheating and corruption, price-fixing, price-gouging, and restraint of trade), and false advertising.


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13.4Organizational crime: Crime can be done by and on behalf of organizations

Organizational Crime



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False Advertising

CorporateFraud

Cheating/Corruption

Price FixingPrice Gouging

Financial Crime

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Restraintof

Trade

Corporate Crimes



Understand how corporate violence poses threats to health and safety: workers and unsafe work places, consumers and unsafe products (the automobile, pharmaceutical, and food industries), and environmental pollution.


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Threats to Health and Safety

Workers and

Unsafe Work

Places

Consumers and Unsafe

Products

Environmental Pollution





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Property/Street Crime

$18 BillionAnnually

White Collar-Crime

$564.5 Billion

Annually

vs.



Be familiar with the various explanations of white-collar crime, including similarities and differences with street crime, cultural and social bases for white-collar crime, and lenient treatment.


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Disparity Between

Corporate Goals and Means to Achieve Them

Self-Interest, Pursuit of Pleasure,

Avoidance of Pain

Learned Behavior

Why Do People Engage in White-Collar Crime?

Cultural and Social

Bases

Lenient Treatment


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White-Collar

Criminality

Lower-Class Criminality

vs.





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Regulatory Agencies Need Larger

Budgets

More Media Attention

More Severe Punishments

Self-Regulation and Compliance Strategies

Emphasizing Informal Sanctions





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Resumed Traditional Positions of

Power in Italian Society

Allowed Mafia to Establish Significant Wealth and

Power

Mafia Became a Quasi-Police

Organization in Italian Ghettoes

Italian Criminal

Organizations That Came to

the U.S. Included the

Mafia and the Black Hand

After WWII

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1930s–1940sProhibition

Early 20th

Century

Late 19th–Early 20th

Century

Hundreds of

Years

Brief Early History of the Mafia

Secret Societies All Throughout

Italy

Mafia Became Very Anti-Fascist


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Curtailing Organized Crime

Increase Law Enforcement Authority


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Reduce Economic Lure of Involvement in Organized Crime


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Decrease Organized Criminal Opportunity Through Decriminalization or Legalization of Activities from Which Organized Crime Draws Income



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Be acquainted with the different forms of occupational crime: employee theft (pilferage and embezzling),

collective embezzlement in the savings and loan industry, fraud in the professions, health-care fraud (including improper billing and unnecessary surgery), financial

fraud, and police/political corruption

Be familiar with organizational criminality and corporate crime, including corporate financial crime (corporate

fraud, cheating and corruption, price-fixing, price-gouging, and restraint of trade), and false advertising.

CHAPTER SUMMARY



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Understand how corporate violence poses threats to health and safety: workers and unsafe work places,

consumers and unsafe products (the automobile, pharmaceutical, and food industries), and

environmental pollution.


Be familiar with the various explanations of white-collar crime, including similarities and differences with street crime, cultural and social bases for white-collar

crime, and lenient treatment.

CHAPTER SUMMARY



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