WHITE-COLLAR CRIME - 4 Short Essay Questions
Please provide a short essay response to each of the following questions:
1. What are the relationships between trust, respectability, risk, and white collar crime, and how do these relationships differ when the crime involved is conventional, rather than white collar?
2. How would you define white collar crime?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the various terms, such as "white collar crime," "crimes of the powerful," and "elite deviance," that are used to describe the type of crimes discussed in the textbook?
4. Why have white collar crime offenders traditionally received lighter sentences than conventional crime offenders?