White Collar Criminal Essay

The author’s irony by stating in the title that it is a “prominent bar,” made me laugh. As Secaucus is known as a grungy farm town, and there is nothing prominent about it. The setting for this poem is actually a dive bar that caters to blue-collar workers, in Secaucus New Jersey. It is about a drunken woman bragging about her fabulous and glamorous life when she was younger. She is telling her story about how she once had it all the looks, the money, and the men. Then as time passed by,…

The concept of punishing white-collar offenders is a complex one. Some may argue that in order to not favor one type of crime over the others, white-collar criminal must be treated just like their traditional crime counterparts. On the other hand, some may argue that white-collar criminals are a different breed of criminals altogether and, therefore, would not benefit for incarceration and would merely overload an already overburdened prison system. With these arguments in place, it appears…

For example, Most street crime is committed by poorer classes and white-collar crime is more often committed by upper classes. White-collar crime is a rarely punished because society, and the criminal justice system, looks more favorably on those with more power and prosperity. White-collar crime has fewer negative sanctions than other forms of deviance because society is biased in favor of wealthy individuals.…

In Edwin Sutherland’s 1940 article, “White Collar Criminality,” Sutherland argues that poverty is not a causing factor of criminal behavior, and a primary example of such a fact are white collar criminals themselves. He also argues that both white collar and lower class criminals learn criminal behavior, a topic called Differential Association coined by Sutherland, suggesting that the conditions in which one lives cannot be directly correlated with crime. Nonetheless, Sutherland’s central…

theories on white collar crimes. White Collar Criminals do not use physical force to commit a crime but they use illegal channels to gain some type of monetary gain. Agnew et al discuss that General Strain Theory can be used to describe white collar crime. They say there are specific times when a high-class individual is strained to commit this type of crime. Lynn Langton also uses the General Strain Theory to describe White Collar Crime. She uses data to predict what type of White Collar…

The emergence of white-collar crimes/theory during the turn of the century asked the primary question of who is causing the most amounts of crime and the most amount of damage within society? Edwin Sutherland did much of the research during the rise of his theory, differential association. In addition, Geis (2010) recounts that Sutherland “reviewed major instances of financial fraud by business magnates such as the railroad entrepreneurs and monopolists. He also catalogued legal actions taken…

or criminal activity can be defined as any behavior that violates the law. Street crime tends to be the primary focus of the media, the public, and even the focus of the law enforcement and the Criminal Justice System, but what of white collar crime? White collar crime can be defined as deviant acts that break the law and are usually focused on financial gain. Some examples of white collar crimes include embezzlement, fraud, Ponzi schemes, and money laundering. One famous instigator of white…

convicted in federal courts for offenses ranging from tax law violations to environmental crimes” (Adler et al. Pg. 322, 2013). The biggest problem many corporation face is defining corporate crimes. In order to understand the causation of crime and criminal behavior, these corporations need to become familiar with early interpretation and theories of criminality. Towards the end of the 1930s Strain theories, developed by Emile Durkheim. Strain theory, observes a crime as the normal result of…

Conflict theorists would argue that the preferential of fines over imprisonment is simply but another way in which the elite punish the poor by arguing that fines are more beneficial to society than imprisonment. White-collar criminals can easily pay the fines and the fines are often minimal compared to caused damages. Under conflict theory, fines are preferred method of enforcement because they lack the crime aspect and the stigma that attends indictment and conviction (Sutherland, 1945). A…

types of crime in society white collar and blue collar. People that commit white collar crimes are typically well educated, rich, and powerful. People that do commit white collar crimes are politicians, high level drug dealers, mobsters, computer hackers, etc. White collar crimes tend to deal with a large sum of money and are…