Chapter 4

In Chapter 4, it discusses crime and social control. It talks about not only crime that involves violence, but non violent crimes as well. It goes over rape and murder, as well as stolen property. I chose this chapter because I feel it represents the worst of our society, and the true problems therein. When most people think of crime, this is what they think of, stealing, murder, rape, and kidnapping. They also think of computer crime, as it is becoming more and more prominent as technology grows. One of the most common crimes is media crime, and this article I found talks about it in a very understandable way: http://ida.lib.uidaho.edu:3304/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=95b37101-63f0-4f01-88a1-d113ede1e0b4%40sessionmgr4&vid=7&hid=17

I think this picture accurately describes what most people immediately think of when they hear about something being stolen. However, this is not what most white collar criminals look like, instead, they look mostly like this-

This is Bernie Madoff, one of the most famous white collar criminals of all time. And he is your average, white collar, grandfatherly type. Almost no one would look at a picture of a man like this and say, yep, he's robbing me.
This link shows just how a specific type of white collar crime works, ponzi schemes- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTPKcJGwe4
I chose this site because it describes multiple types of property crime, and it has links to surveys and other information-http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=32
"He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it". This quote was translated by and unknown source from Seneca, and explains how crime exists in our society, we encourage it!
Another site I found very informative on white collar crime is- http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar. This site has a very good introduction, and quite a few links to other parts of white collar crime.