Today's White-Collar Crime: Theories, Analysis, and Trends

Running head: TODAY’S WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
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TOPIC: TODAY’S WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
DATE: 28-2-2019

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Contents
Summary.....................................................................................................................................................3
Chapter 6 White Collar-Crime Theory.........................................................................................................3
Chapter 7 Organizational Crime and Corporate Criminal Liabilities.............................................................4
Chapter 8 White Collar Crime......................................................................................................................6
Chapter 9 White-Collar Crime Analysis and Trends.....................................................................................7
Chapter 10 Where Do We Go From Here? The future of White-Collar Crime.............................................9

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Summary
Chapter 6 White Collar-Crime Theory
The chapter provides detail knowledge of white-collar crime theories. Various typologies to
white-collar crimes with historical aspects are discussed with positivist perspectives of several
theories such as social strain theory and complementary theories. The history of white-collar
crime is described in detail with the origin of the study that addresses the American Sociological
Society. The theory of the Leisure Class was published with satirical and scholarly professor
Thorstein Veblen. The theory addresses the spending pattern of middle and upper-class people of
society as it was not concentrated only with the examination of social class. The fundamental
examination was focused while realizing the concept of consumerism in the society with the
evolution of conspicuous expenditure. Next theory discussed was the theory of social strain that
was published in 1938 by Robert Merton. There were five reactions that Merton categorized in
this theory such as conformity, ritualism, innovation, rebellion, and retreatism. Legitimate means
are used in order to achieve the goals thereby there are a foundation means of understanding and
engaging in illegal acts of embezzlement and fraud. Learning of criminal behavior takes place
with intimate groups of the society thereby illicit activities take place with socioeconomic ladder
(McCarthy & Hagan, 1995). Furthermore, the chapter discusses the feminist theory in white-
collar crime. Meda Chesney is a social constructionist in critical-feminist theory who has
mentioned trends that focus on a crime that is committed by women and they are violent and
non-violent crimes that are described in detail.
There is a dramatic increase in crime among women that has been observed in a decade. These
findings and the results are important to focus on the assert of theories by Adler with a
hypothetical situation that man is just involved in crime. In fact, there is a rise in crime rate due
to the involvement of crime by women which ranks in corporate history with a higher public
trust. Sutherland’s theory has addressed the most important contribution in criminology and
sociology that was studied with a focus on companion theory of differential association. There is
an increase in the research for criminal learning theories with delinquent and criminal entities
that are measured. The shortchanges that is observed in Sutherland’s theory is about individual
volition (Hagan, 1990). The economic emphasize is measured effectively with the positivist
research on McCarthy’s theory. Conspicuous consumption theory, social strain theory,