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This 5 page paper provides a general overview of organizational crime and how it can be controlled. Various types of crimes are discussed inclusive of identity theft and consumer scams. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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will want to identify types of organizational crime and look at affected populations. It should be noted that organizational crime is sometimes referred to as corporate crime or white
collar crime. Tonry (2000) actually classifies corporate crime as a sub-type of organizational crime. However, it should not be confused with organized crime (Tonry, 2000). Many years ago, sociologist
Edwin H. Sutherland defined white collar crime as follows: "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (Lewis, 2002, p.2).
Here, the idea was that a criminal is someone who looked like a criminal so someone who had a respectable job was considered trustworthy. It could not be the good
old boy next door. Of course, times have changed and in criminology it is learned that not only can white collar criminals live next door but so can any criminal.
A criminal does not look or behave a certain way. Everyone today is suspect. The white collar criminal is however very hard to identify. Examples of organizational crimes are
"reports of bogus research findings by corporate or university-based scientists and crimes directed, encouraged or condoned by state managers" (Tonry, 2000, p.138). In that context, organizational crime is aligned with
academic integrity. Plagiarism would fall under that category. Falsifying documents is another type of crime in that area. Internet crime, embezzlement, and other things sometimes play into white collar crime.
But white collar organizational crime is largely characterized by crimes committed by those who do not have ties to legitimate organizations (Tonry, 2000). In examining victims of crime, victims of
organizational crime are not quite as apparent as those who have been attacked physically for example. A victim of rape or assault has the wounds to prove they have been
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