DIFFERENT Moral crime
Crimes that go against morals of society
TYPES OF CRIME Examples: selling drugs, incest,
prostitution, etc.
White collar crime
Case studies: Patrick Stuebing and Susan
Crimes committed by people with power Karolewski (Sexual intercourse between
and influence siblings Incest)
Examples: Defrauding customers, Tax Victims: it is hard to identify victims in
evasion moral crimes because both sides can be
Case studies: Enron (2001)- abusing of classed as victims.
mark-to-market accounting, special purpose Offenders: often same people as victims,
entities, and poor financial reporting – were but often it is clear such as dealers, etc.
able to hide billions of dollars in debt from
failed deals and projects. 63.4 billion Criminality: it can be both deviant and
dollars. criminal however some cultures may view
deviant moral crimes as the ‘norm’ in their
victims: Consumers, taxpayers who pay society such as polygamy.
their taxes, employees of companies that
break health, Member of public Public awareness: victims do not often
report this because they want to keep a ‘low
Offenders: People with power and profile’ such as drug dealers AND drug
authority such as company directors and users.
managers, other professionals such as such
as accountants, lawyers, doctors.
Criminality: criminal and deviant and can
cause great harm. WCC frequently involves Technological crimes
a betrayal of trust, such as when lawyers
swindle their clients or doctors abuse their -crimes committed online, internet,
patients. anything on ict. These are also known as
PUBLIC AWARNESS- Victims often cybercrimes.
don't report Wc crime because they often Examples: identity theft, cyber trespassing,
don’t know they have been a victim. Media publishing or viewing child pornography.
coverage of white-collar crime is very
limited Victims: anyone who uses the internet,
young people, elderly, women.