Crime In Society

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Crime in most people’s minds would probably be viewed as the index crimes. Murder, rape, arson, robbery, and aggravated assault, all of which are index crimes are probably what most people think of when crime is mentioned. This paper however, is not on crime, it is on criminal behavior. The focus of this analysis is actually on white-collar and corporate crime. Crime that many times are overlooked. Why is white-collar crime many times overlooked? It is overlooked because the people that commit these types of crime are not exactly your everyday criminals. They are not your average poor, so called white trash and low-life people. They are not the people who you would expect to be criminals. They are actually in fact your everyday working class and middle class people. As I mentioned before, white- collar crime involves not people who are usually poor but people who are much better off in life. These people who are typically successful and have families and are the people who you would never even picture as being criminals. They are people who could never even be categorized as a criminal but are because white-collar crime and corporate crimes are in fact what they are, a crime. White- collar crime occurs in banks and corporations and often involves important figures in a community, like I said the people you would never expect. As for corporate crime, it does not involve just one individual, but many people, often an entire company or corporation, once again crime in the suites, not in the streets. So, what is white-collar crime and corporate crime? Now that I have introduced the topic I will go into detail as to what both of these topics actually are and I will examine more closely and look at what social forces play major roles in these crimes in the paragraphs to come. White-collar crime refers to illegal activities committed by people during the course of their employment or regular business activities. Crimes such as, fraud, which ...