Public Attitudes toward a Form of White Collar Crime

A considerable body of research on societal response to white-collar and corporate crime has evidenced a hardening of public attitudes, including increased perceived seriousness of upper-class criminality and punitiveness toward its perpetrators. These findings suggest that, over time, the public has gained a better understanding of white-collar crime and its deleterious social impact. However, none of the opinion surveys included a direct measure of public knowledge. As a result, it is difficult to determine to which extent U.S. citizens are objectively informed about crimes of the powerful. In fact, only a few studies have focused exclusively on the intersection between knowledge about white-collar crime and sentiment toward it. These scholarly efforts have concluded that the American people continue to underestimate the actual financial and physical consequences of white-collar crime, which may be the result of selective reporting by the mass media and biased research foci by scholars. By choosing to focus on traditional criminal law violations, such as homicide and theft, and relegating white-collar offenses to the rank of victimless crimes, journalists and criminologists have contributed to the construction and propagation of myths about upper-world criminality. In turn, continuous adherence to these myths might lead to polarized opinions about which type of penal policy to adopt against white-collar crime.

White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers

10.1017/cbo9780511499524 ◽

2001 ◽

Cited By ~ 148

Author(s):

David Weisburd ◽

Elin Waring ◽

Ellen F. Chayet

Keyword(s):

White Collar Crime ◽

White Collar ◽

Criminal Careers

Insider Trading: A White-Collar Crime and its Impact on Share Market

Think India ◽

10.26643/think-india.v17i3.7806 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 22-24

Author(s):

Sreekumar Ray

Keyword(s):

Stock Market ◽

Insider Trading ◽

White Collar Crime ◽

White Collar ◽

Adverse Impact ◽

High Ranking ◽

Internal Information ◽

Indian Stock Market ◽

The Impact

Since inception, the growth of the Indian stock market has been constrained through unethical, illegal and self-actualized activities of swanky persons involved in different capacities in the market. The stock market was trying to retrieve itself from the devastating effect of Harshad Mehta share market scam, when within a gap of ten years it was once again pushed into the darkness of the dungeon by another demon-child of the country- Ketan Parekh. Corporations have been looted by the insider traders, diversifying internal information to an external in lieu of cash. Investigations in the majority cases have proved the involvement of the high ranking officers of the companies in the crime, sophistically referred to as white-collar crime. It has an adverse impact on the growth and sustainability of the share market. Under the light of the above issue, this paper endeavors to study the impact of such crime on the share market. It focuses on the mechanism behind the insider-trading, its impact on the share market and the regulators supervision on the issue. Finally, suggestions have been provided which will contribute towards the dream of every Indian-a fraud-free share market focusing towards the overall development of the country.

Defending White-Collar Crime: A Portrait of Attorneys at Work.Kenneth Mann

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/228653 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 92 (5) ◽

pp. 1257-1259

Author(s):

Michael J. Powell

Keyword(s):

White Collar Crime ◽

White Collar

Gender and White-Collar Crime: Convenience in Target Selection

Deviant Behavior ◽

10.1080/01639625.2020.1756428 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas Dearden ◽

Petter Gottschalk

Keyword(s):

White Collar Crime ◽

Target Selection ◽

White Collar

Testing Convenience Theory for White-collar Crime: Perceptions of Potential Offenders and Non-offenders

Deviant Behavior ◽

10.1080/01639625.2021.1919037 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

William A. Stadler ◽

Petter Gottschalk

Keyword(s):

White Collar Crime ◽

White Collar ◽

Crime Perceptions

The Yale White‐Collar Crime Project

10.1002/9781119111931.ch143 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 762-765

Author(s):

John H. Weigel

Keyword(s):

White Collar Crime ◽

White Collar

A Black Box Warning: The Marginalization of White-Collar Crime Victimization

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime ◽

10.1177/2631309x19888501 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 24-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mary Dodge

Keyword(s):

Drug Administration ◽

White Collar Crime ◽

Wide Spectrum ◽

Food And Drug Administration ◽

White Collar ◽

Black Box ◽

Additional Research ◽

Crime Victimization ◽

Street Level ◽

Victimization Research

The study of white-collar crime has become a subfield of criminology receiving great attention, though victimization calls for additional research. The black box warning, used by the Food and Drug Administration to denote potential serious hazards of a drug or device, is an apt metaphor for the neglect often associated with the identification, depth, consequences, and, at times, violent nature of white-collar crime victimization. Research on victims is evolving, though compared to street-level crime remains marginalized, despite the serious harms caused by the former. This article offers a review of what researchers have accomplished and identifies topics of concern. White-collar crime targets a wide spectrum of the population and a high number of people, but the black box of victimization demonstrates the need for research that further enhances knowledge and informs policy.

Forestalling the next epidemic of white-collar crime

Criminology & Public Policy ◽

10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00658.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 641-654 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Peter Grabosky ◽

Neal Shover

Keyword(s):

White Collar Crime ◽

White Collar