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    When comparing white collar and conventional crime offenders, it couldn't be any different. Of course one of the major reason is the type of offenses the offender committed. white collar crimes include various forms of corporate, occupational crime, and fraud. For conventional crime, the type of crimes committed by offenders are index crimes like murder, rape, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, and auto theft. While type of crimes committed by the offender are different, so are the…

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    assault work? You can’t torture the torturer or burn the arsonist. Response: No need to focus on literal interpretation of proportionality focus is on alternative compensation like appropriate imprisonment. For fraud and other less severe corporate crimes, could focus on alternative compensation and hold officer responsible. An in-depth analysis of Utilitarianism is beyond the scope of this paper however utilitarianism focuses on the welfare of society. It is part of a consequentialist…

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    Impact Of Income On Crime

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    The Impact of Income on Crime Prevention Author: Monique Powers Abstract Crime is committed by every gender, race, and social class in the United States- Caucasian, African-American, Male and female, by the poor and by the wealthy. America has seen crime increasing tremendously which has raised the demand for an increase in crime prevention spending. However, others in society believe spending money on crime prevention is a waste since nothing has changed according to their findings and beliefs…

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    The idea of white-collar crime was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, a sociologist. Sutherland defines white-collar crime as a crime committed by a person with high social status in his work (Sutherland, 1949). Sutherland spoke at the American Sociological Society Meeting in 1939, and expressed his concern for the lack of attention for certain crimes. These crimes were those of high-status people, such as corporate or “white-collar” workers. The actual term of white-collar comes from the…

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    state that women are risk averse and do not play major roles in white-collar crime. Two prolific women have defied qualities of normative femininity and have played major roles in the orchestration of a corporate crime challenging Steffensmeier’s argument. By taking risks and demonstrating assertiveness while holding a dominant position in their businesses, Michelle Tobin and Monica Iles were able to carry out corporate offences in their unmonitored and independent clerical work (Steffensmeier…

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    their crimes. The rich preserve power and live much better lives than the poor. It is pretty clear the power inequality affects not only a person’s life, but others around them as well. The types of deviant activities we like to be engaged in are affected by power inequality (Barak 2000). Profitable crimes, such as corporate crime, are more likely to be perpetrated by the rich and powerful compared to the poor. Powerless and less priviladge people are more probable to enact unprofitable crimes,…

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    The conflict theory only helps to explain a small variance of all the white-collar crimes and is more applicable for the super-rich individuals. Hence there must be other reasons why other people (e.g those that are of lower status) are still committing white-collar crimes. The general strain theory thus helps to provide another viewpoint on this issue. In brief, the general strain theory claims that strain happens because of the loss of positive stimuli and presence of salient negative emotions…

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    Criminal Behavior Analysis

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    factors such genes and environment to explain deviant behavior. Psychopathy is used to explain some, but not all criminal behavior and has been widely accepted and researched by the criminal justice, psychology, and other science fields. Psychopathy and crime are closely linked to each other and can be explained by many different factors based on genetics and psychosocial approaches, and although psychopathy does not set in stone a criminal future, it is a tremendous risk factor. According to…

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    Street crime is the most visible and usually the most violent of many varieties of crime. white collar crime is a crime that is nonviolent. Black crime is a term for any criminal offense in a public place such as robbery, grand theft, and selling drugs. Its controversial because you hear more about black crime then you do white collar crime. Black crimes and white- collar crimes are both harmful to the society, but they are each handled differently in terms of consequences, media coverage, and…

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    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 an "American dream", where by the…

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