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Crim Ch 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blue collar crime | common law theft crimes such as larceny, burglary, and arson |
| occasional criminals | do not view themselves as committed to career criminals |
| professional criminals | nonviolent forms of criminal behavior are undertaken with high degree of skill for monetary gain |
| white collar crime | any business-related act that uses deceit, deception, or dishonesty to carry out criminal enterprise |
| ponzi schemes | investors give money to a portfolio manager and then pay out with incoming funds contributed by later investors |
| professional chiseling | using illegal means to cheat an organization or its consumers |
| financial chiseling | using professional position to take advantage of customers |
| green collar crimes | legalist, environmental justice, biocentric, the harms perspective |
| 3 groups of property criminals | skilled thieves, smugglers, poachers |
| skilled theives | pickpocketing, forgers |
| smugglers | transported goods w/o paying taxes |
| poachers | lived in rural areas and participated in gaming (land animal hunted) |
| Edwin Sutherland first defined | "white collar crimes" |
| green collar is a sub of | white collar but is motivated by profit and cause harm to the environment |
| arson | the willful, malicious burning of a home, public building, vehicle, or commercial building |
| theories of white and green collar crime | rational choice, rationalization/neutralization view, cultural view, self-control view |
| rational choice | greed and need |
| rationalization/neutralization view | find ways to neutralize the wrongdoing |
| cultural view | cultural practices of the organization that promotes criminality |
| self-control view | follow impulse to engage in illegal corporate practices |
| compliance strategies | methods of controlling white collar crimes that rely on the threat of economic sanctions or civil penalties to control potential violators, creating. marketplace incentive to obey the law |
| deterrence strategies | methods that rely on the punishment of individual offenders to deter would-be violators |
| situational inducement | unplanned opportunity to commit crime |