the inadequacies of traditional theories in crimes. "White-collar crimes will constitute those classes of non-violent illegal activities which principally involve traditional notions of deceit, deception, concealment, manipulation, breach of trust, subterfuge or illegal circumvention. Furthermore white collar crimes concentrated much more consideration in organization and businessmen. The terms "white-collar crime" and its offshoot, are "organized crime”. Most of the criminals are occurring in companies
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collection of crime statistics? Discuss, within your answer, the weaknesses and strengths of the official crime statistics and British Crime Survey. Official crime statistics are secondary documentary sources which are most commonly based on figures from the police and the courts. These are then announced by the Home Office at a later date. Interactionists question the validity and reliability of official crime statistics as they state that official crime statistics greatly underestimate crime itself
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Criminologist vs. Criminalist and Crime Variation Law Sanders American InterContinental University Abstract The basis for this paper is to demonstrate the differences between criminologist and criminalist. As the discussion is clarified the topics of the UCR (Uniform Crime Report) will arise with attention to the specific crimes of type 1 and type 2. Finally, the distinction between those crimes that are white-collar vs. blue-collar and of which are violent in comparison to those that
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the differences between crime. The public may not realize that there are national databases that the FBI has that offers statistical information of state and national crimes. Furthermore, the media plays a large role in the misconception of the severity and frequency of crimes, choosing to sensationalize those which they feel will bring in more views. Criminalists have an important part in the justice field. They collect, preserve, and interpret evidence found at crime scenes. Their job is to reconstruct
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little power are at high risk of being labeled deviance. In terms of functional analysis, deviance is a necessary element of social organization. Deviance affirms cultural values and norms. There can be no good without evil and no justice without crime. Responding to deviance clarifies moral boundaries. By defining some individuals as deviant, people draw a boundary between right and wrong. Responding to deviance brings people together. When terrorists attacks occurred, people joined by a common
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PERCEPTION OF A WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: TAX EVASION 1 By Hughlene Burton University of North Carolina at Charlotte Stewart Karlinsky San Jose State University Visiting Fellow, 2005 School of Business Law Curtin University of Technology Cindy Blanthorne University of North Carolina at Charlotte ISSN: 1321-7828 ISBN: 174067 410 3 1 This paper was previously published in the American Taxation Association Journal of Legal Tax Research. 1 PERCEPTION OF A WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: TAX EVASION
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AN ESSAY ON SOCIETY AND DEFINITION OF CRIME BRIAN WENDO Society and Crime Introduction Crime has no ontological reality; it is a ‘myth’ of everyday life. The defiency of any fundamental quality of which to conclusively define an event as crime is shown by the variety of crimes ; robbery, credit card fraud, drug peddling, rape, insider trading, prostitution, bigamy and attempted suicide to name but a few. They should entail punishment in the ideal situation. These situations
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is because a person commits a crime not because he is poor but because he is a human being. Certain crimes which respected members of the upper classes of society may commit are often more serious compared to the ones which the poor people commit and they may inflict greater damage on society. Crimes that involve great amounts of money or economic interests, such as bribery and corruption, are among the top crimes that adversely affect the entirety of society. Crimes of this nature are not sufficiently
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2013) defined white-collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation” (p. 281). It explains the individual’s actions leading to committing as offenders find way to make the benefits more worthwhile by trying to adjust the risks of the costs which are far more costly in disguise. According to Sutherland, as cited in (Hagan, 2013): “despite the fact that white-collar crimes cost several times more than other crimes put together,
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choice assumptions would appear to be especially applicable to white collar crime”, I think general theory of crime or self-control theory would be much more applicable to white collar crime because rational choice theory focus on punishment just like Cesare Beccaria with a mindset that punishment can stop people from offending. In other words, the greater is the punishment is the less likely a person would attempt to commit a crime. As for today, it is obvious that theory is not working out very
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