Social Class and Crime - White Collar Crime | A Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video looking at social class and crime focusing on white color crime the term white color crime is attributed to Southerland who coined the term in reaction to assumptions that crime was a working class phenomena While most of the focus of crime by theorists had been on working

class crime southernland argued that there existed opportunities for white color workers in other words those in managerial and non-manual occupations to commit crime through their employment souland suggested there were two forms of white collar crime corporate crime which we'll examine in a separate video which is crime that is committed by individuals on behalf of

the companies they're working for and occupational crime and this was usually crime committed against the company or its customers for the individual gain of the employee these occupational crimes usually focused on utal itarian gain and one form of white color crime is embezzlement and this is withdrawing the resources of the company for an

individual's personal gain a second is inside of trading and this involves the passing on of information that will benefit an individual financially without that knowledge being in the public domain therefore giving them an unfair advantage in things like Investments and stocks and shares this is a common form of crime utilizing contacts and information but it's very

difficult to prove and so therefore has lower rates of convic ition tax evasion is another form of white collor crime and like with companies individuals may look to utilize methods of falsely declaring revenue and resources gained due their employment for the purposes of avoiding paying tax on those gains and finally bribery attempting to