white-collar crime

(noun)

A non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.

Related Terms

  • plea bargain
  • Marxist Theory

Examples of white-collar crime in the following topics:

  • White-Collar Crime

    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • White-collar crime, is similar to corporate crime, because white-collar employees are more likely to commit fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cyber crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery .
    • The relationship that white-collar crime has with corporate crime is that they are similar because they both are involved within the business world.
    • Their difference is that white-collar crime benefits the individual involved, and corporate crime benefits the company or the corporation.
  • Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System

    • For instance someone committing a white collar crime is most likely from the higher classes and is less likely to be reported or punish.
    • White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
    • Indeed, white-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
    • Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
    • Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
  • Theories of Deviance

    • The criminal justice system is also structured to reflect differences in power and property, as white collar crime illustrates.
    • White-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
    • Examples of white-collar crimes include:
    • As of 2009, the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics do not provide clear statistics on white-collar crime, like they do with other types of crime.
    • Most of the statistics provided are estimates of losses resulting from white-collar crime, which include:
  • Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002

    • This section increases the criminal penalties associated with white-collar crimes and conspiracies.
  • Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002

    • Title IX increases the criminal penalties associated with white-collar crimes and conspiracies.
  • Managing to Prevent Fraud

    • It is frequently associated with the investigation of civil or criminal white-collar crime such as fraud, embezzlement, and general abuse of funds issues.
    • For fraud to occur in this situation, two employees must collude to perpetrate the crime.
  • Differential Association Theory

    • This does not deny that there may be practical motives for crime.
    • When criminal behavior is learned, the learning includes techniques of committing the crime (which are sometimes very complicated, sometimes simple) and the specific direction of motives, drives, rationalizations, and attitudes.
    • One very unique aspect of this theory is that it works to explain more than just juvenile delinquency and crime committed by lower class individuals.
    • Since crime is understood to be learned behavior, the theory is also applicable to white-collar, corporate, and organized crime.
  • Class

    • Middle class workers are sometimes called white-collar workers.
    • Members of the working class are sometimes called blue-collar workers.
    • In the United States, neighborhoods are stratified by class such that the lower class is often made to live in crime-ridden, decaying areas.
  • Job Discrimination

    • This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
    • A pink-collar worker is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher or secretary.
    • The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
  • Inequalities of Work

    • This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
    • A "pink-collar worker" is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher, or secretary.
    • The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
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