What are the four reasons why, according to Sutherland, that the forces aligned to fight white-collar crime are weak? Are those forces still in play today? How was the public’s view about white-collar crime changed in recent years?
What will be an ideal response?
First, due to their respectability and high social status in the community, the public--at least in Sutherland’s day--do not think of businesspeople and professionals as “criminal.” Second, prevailing laissez-fair capitalist ideology, which Sutherland termed “anomie,” provided a general justification for not intervening in business practices. Third, business uses its influence to disrupt attempts to control it. This power is seen in its capacity to divert the criminal law from sanctioning untoward upperworld behavior. Fourth, the potential victims of white-collar crime are, in comparison with their victimizers, weak.
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