aAssignment 1

White Collar Crime

Your written assignment for this module involves answering the four essay questions listed below. Your answer for each of the four essay questions should be between one page in length.

  1. Identify and discuss some of the principal elements of E. H. Sutherland’s contribution to the study of White Collar Crime and some of the limitations regarding his work.
  2. Identify some of the main issues involved in the challenges of defining White Collar Crime, and then discuss arguments for and against White Collar Crime over elite deviance.
  3. Identify the costs and consequences of White Collar Crime, and discuss why they are more difficult to measure that for conventional and other types of crime.
  4. Discuss the traditional common claim that the general public perceives White Collar Crime to be less serious than conventional crime, then discuss which specific factors have contributed to a growth in the perception that White Collar Crime is relatively serious.

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