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Anthony Harris
James Shaw |
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| Looking for Patterns: Race, Class, and Crime |
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Darrell Stefensmeier
Emilie Allen |
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| Looking for Patterns: Gender, Age, and Crime |
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| Crime and Deviance over the Lifecourse: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds |
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| Adolesence-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior |
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| Social Structure and Anomie |
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| Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Delinquincy |
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| What explanations of crime did Sutherland reject? |
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-Explanations of high poverty
-Psychosocial conditions |
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| What error in methods of studying crime and criminals did other criminologists make, resulting in a distorted image of crime? |
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-Samples did not explore outside of lower class crime.
-Biased Sample |
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| What distortion in the characterization of offenders has been produced by excluding white-collar crime from analysis? |
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Distortion is:
-Only psychopaths or people who come from poor conditions, like poverty or abusive homes, will commit crime. |
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| What are the most common forms of white-collar crime in buisness? |
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-Bribery
-Embezzelment
-Tax Fraud
-Monetary crimes |
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| What kinds of white-collar crimes do medical proffessionals most often commit? |
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-Sell narcotics/alcohol illegally
-Give criminals illegal procedures
-Fradulent Reports |
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| How do official (police/court) crime statistics misrepresent the relationship between crime and social class? |
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-Statistics show high crime rate concentration within lower class.
-This is misleading about where crime happens and who it affects. |
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| How do white-collar and conventional crimes compare, in terms of monetary losses, to all victims? |
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-White-collar costs victims several times as much as conventional crimes.
-White-collar crime also has negative affect on social relations. |
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| What kinds of behavior, in addition to violation of the criminal law, does Sutherland include of his definition of white-collar crime? |
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| -When a person of high social class and power commits a crime that involves money and power. |
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| What standard does Sutherland advocate to determine whether a crime has been committed? |
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-Crime is commited by conviction
-Upperclass indivicuals accused of white-class crime often face no serious sanctions. |
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| Why are so few white-collar crimes convicted by courts? |
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-No standards to try white-collar criminals.
-Sutherland suggests that this crime be handled by a completely different agency. |
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