Class Name, Instructor Name Date, Semester Criminology 2011 Chapter 13 WHITE-COLLAR AND ORGANIZED CRIME

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Understand the relationship between the work of Edwin Sutherland and white-collar crime. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.1

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Edwin Sutherland

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Be able to define white-collar crime, including the conceptual problems involved. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.2

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.2 “A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.2 Occupational Crime Occupational Crime Corporate Crime Corporate Crime 8

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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 Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.3

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Employee Theft 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 Police/ Political Corruption 13. 3

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.4

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.4 Organizational crime : Crime can be done by and on behalf of organizations Organizational Crime

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.4 False Advertising False Advertising Corporate Fraud Corporate Fraud Cheating/ Corruption Cheating/ Corruption Price Fixing Price Gouging Price Gouging Financial Crime Financial Crime 13 Restraint of Trade Restraint of Trade Corporate Crimes

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.5

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.5 Threats to Health and Safety Workers and Unsafe Work Places Consumers and Unsafe Products Environmental Pollution

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Appreciate the economic and human costs of white-collar crime. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.6

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.6 Property/Street Crime $18 Billion Annually White Collar-Crime $564.5 Billion Annually vs.

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.7

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.7 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

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.7 White-Collar Criminality Lower-Class Criminality vs.

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Be acquainted with how white-collar crime might be reduced. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.8

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.8 Regulatory Agencies Need Larger Budgets More Media Attention More Severe Punishments Self-Regulation and Compliance Strategies Emphasizing Informal Sanctions

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved Be familiar with organized crime, including its history, the alien conspiracy model (and myth), and its control. Learning Objectives After this lecture, you should be able to complete the following Learning Outcomes 13.9

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved After WWII s– 1940s Prohibition Early 20 th Century Late 19 th – Early 20 th Century Hundreds of Years Brief Early History of the Mafia

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.9 Increase Law Enforcement Authority

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.9 Reduce Economic Lure of Involvement in Organized Crime

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 13.9 Decrease Organized Criminal Opportunity Through Decriminalization or Legalization of Activities from Which Organized Crime Draws Income

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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 SUMMARY

© 2012 by Pearson Higher Education, Inc Upper Saddle River, New Jersey All Rights Reserved 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 SUMMARY 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