White Collar
(adjective)
Describes a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work for a salary.
Examples of White Collar in the following topics:
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White-Collar Crime
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- White-collar crime, is similar to corporate crime, because white-collar employees are more likely to commit fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cyber crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery .
- The term "white-collar crime" was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, who defined it as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" in a speech entitled "The White Collar Criminal" delivered to the American Sociological Society.
- Instead, white-collar criminals are opportunists, who learn to take advantage of their circumstances to accumulate financial gain.
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Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System
- For instance someone committing a white collar crime is most likely from the higher classes and is less likely to be reported or punish.
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- Indeed, white-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
- Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
- Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
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Theories of Deviance
- The criminal justice system is also structured to reflect differences in power and property, as white collar crime illustrates.
- White-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
- Examples of white-collar crimes include:
- As of 2009, the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics do not provide clear statistics on white-collar crime, like they do with other types of crime.
- Most of the statistics provided are estimates of losses resulting from white-collar crime, which include:
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The Working Class
- Those in the working class are commonly employed in low-skilled occupations, including clerical and retail positions and blue collar or manual labor occupations.
- Low-level, white-collar employees are sometimes included in this class, such as secretaries and call center employees.
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Inequalities of Work
- This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
- A "pink-collar worker" is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher, or secretary.
- The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
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Job Discrimination
- This explanation of the pay gap invokes the notion of the pink-collar worker.
- A pink-collar worker is a term for designating the types of jobs in the service industry that are considered to be stereotypically female, such as working as a waitress, nurse, teacher or secretary.
- The term attempts to distinguish this type of work from blue-collar and white-collar work.
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Differential Association Theory
- Since crime is understood to be learned behavior, the theory is also applicable to white-collar, corporate, and organized crime.
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Weber's View of Stratification
- Weber claimed there are four main classes: the upper class, the white-collar workers, the petite bourgeoisie, and the manual working class.
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Industrial Conflict
- Braverman demonstrated several mechanisms of control in both the factory blue collar and clerical white collar labor force.
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Industrial Work
- In common parlance, these people are often referred to as blue-collar workers.
- Often, blue-collar workers physically build or maintain something .
- The term "blue collar" refers to the type of clothing often worn by industrial workers.
- Some blue-collar workers have uniforms embroidered with either the business' name or the individual's name.
- This clip from CNN shows the development of a new type of blue-collar worker in South Carolina.