Social Class and Crime

Question 1

What social class group is most represented in crime statistics?

Answer 1

Working class

Question 2

What does Newburn argue?

Answer 2

Sociology focuses on the crimes of the powerless rather than the powerful.

Question 3

Who was the first criminologist to show that crime is not simply a working class phenomenon?

Answer 3

Sutherland

Question 4

What did Sutherland introduce the idea of?

Answer 4

White-collar crime, crimes that are commited by the most affluent in society who abused their positions within their middle class occupations for personal benefit.

Question 5

What are the 2 examples of white collar crime that Croall gives?

Answer 5

1. NHS doctors, dentists and pharmacists who have been found to falsify prescriptions and patient records to claim more from the NHS then which they are entitled for example one GP stole £700,000 pounds over 5 years. 2. The former owner of daily telegraph was jailed for 6 and a half years in the US for defrauding shareholders of millions of dollars for personal gain.

Question 6

What did Slapper and Tombs identify?

Answer 6

6 corporate offences.

Question 7

What are Slapper and Tombs 6 corperate offences?

Answer 7

1. Paper work and non compliance. 2. Green crime. 3. Manufacturing offences. 4. Labour law violations . 5. Unfair trade practices. 6. Finance offences.

Question 8

Whats an example of manufacturing offences?

Answer 8

In the 1950s thalidomide wasn’t tested properly and led to 1000s of birth defects.

Question 9

What is an example of unfair trade practices?

Answer 9

In 2011, UK supermarkets and dairy companies were find for price fixing on milk and cheese that costs consumers £270 million more then should have been paid for milk.

Question 9

What’s an example of finance offences?

Answer 9

In 2012 amazon and Starbucks came under attack for failing to pay taxes by using off shore bank accounts.