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Reasons for differences in amount of convictions for corporate crime, and conventional crime  

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Criminology essay What are the reasons for the differences between the amount of convictions for 'Corporate crime' and Conventional crime?' Corporate crime refers to crime that has spanned over a period of time involving a range of sources and related implications. This is often cleverly masked crime that is likely to resemble a huge jigsaw puzzle consisting of the actions of the bourgeoisie. Due to the status and contacts that go hand in hand with people in positions of power their acts of crime and deviance may merely stay as the 'undetected crime' in society regardless of its consequences and it's severity in nature. Conventional crime tends to relate to the more day-day crimes committed by the proletariat amongst society. Examples include some car crime, petty theft, low-level fraud etc. Systems, values and family structural positions in society all encompass social attitudes in how crime is acknowledged, defined and possibly prosecuted. 'For more...

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