Crimes of the Powerful

Pearce

uses the term crimes of the powerful to ‘group’ crimes of the MC and RC

white collar crime

• Embezzlement - withdrawing resources for the individuals own gain

• Tax Evasion - failure to declare resources allocated to an individual as part of employment

• Bribery - accepting payments in return for awarding contracts to suppliers or providing information on a company

examples of WC crime

• Insider trading - Martha Stewart, jailed for insider trading in 2001 and sold shares in drug company

• Bribery - MPs expenses scandal (2009) widespread abuse of parliamentary expenses

Slapper and Tombs

put forward various examples of corporate crime

Corporate Crimes

• Environmental crimes - causing any damage to the environment

• Unfair trade practices - false advertising and price fixing

why are CC and WCC so invisible?

• hidden from view and hard to detect - Croall points out these crimes are invisible as they take place in the workplace

• lack of awareness

victimless crimes

Croak suggests these crimes are less personable to street crime

AO3:

are the crimes still as invisible?

damage of these crimes

indirectly=crimes of the powerful can lead to a mistrust in social institutions e.g. Harold Shipman (doctor)