White-Collar Crime Discussion White-collar crime differs significantly from street crime. In addition to having varying punishments and penalties, each classification of crime in this case has unique targets. It should, however, be noted that in mos Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime on the Economy and Society The objective of this study is to examine the impact of white collar crime on the economy and society. White Collar Crime is reported to be a term that Edwin Southerland, Sociologist of Criminology def Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime Theories, Laws and Processes Explain white collar crime in terms of various theories related to criminology and crime. A white collar crime is an illegal and unethical act that violates public trust (Friedrichs, 2010). Common exa Continue Reading...
In an environment where violent crimes outweigh white-collar crimes, the prosecutor will allocate his resources to fighting violent crimes. Resource availability thus determines how many cases will be pursued by the prosecutor's office. The prosecut Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime: Identifying Valid Deterrents for White Collar Criminals Recent studies suggest that white collar crime is on the rise (Chayet, Waring & Weisburg, 2001; Recine, 2002). Many stereotypical beliefs regarding white collar criminal Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime: When most people think of white collar crime today, they think of Enron and Martha Stewart -- or of a nebulous idea of a kind of crime that only the "upper class" or the very powerful occasionally engage in. However, white collar Continue Reading...
White Collar Crimes Criminality Theories A white collar crime can be simply defined as the framework that instigates immoral actions that don't always endanger lives but do harm the society in one way or another (Freidrichs, 2010). The aspects or f Continue Reading...
White Collar Crimes Governmental Crimes The extent of damage that the application of imperialistic conquests, warfare or threat of nuclear power can have on the psyche, finances and structure of the weaker countries of the world is devastating. All Continue Reading...
White Collar Crime and Coal Companies According to Black's Law Dictionary (1990), a "white collar crime" is the term "signifying various types of unlawful, nonviolent conduct committed by corporations and individuals including theft or fraud, and ot Continue Reading...
1 Identify and discuss some of the principal elements of E. H. Sutherland's contribution to the study of White Collar Crime and some of the limitations regarding his work. Sutherland defined white collar crime as “crimes committed by a pers Continue Reading...
professions promote illegal conduct, and which attributes should inhibit it? Professions such as law and medicine are enclosed vocations which set barriers to entry through educational requirements and other constraints. Members of the profession a Continue Reading...
Corporate Violence White Collar Crime Corporations are considered fictional 'persons' under the law and they can, just like 'real' human persons, also perpetuate violence against individuals and against the community. An excellent example of this i Continue Reading...
Pension fraud is a type of white-collar crime, but it can assume many different forms. In "Guilty Plea in Fraud Case Tied to New York Pension," the underlying crime was bribery, which happened to be related to a pension fraud scheme. The State of New Continue Reading...
Labeling white collar crime is a mystery. A shared misapprehension of white collar crime is that, like pornography, it is hard to describe, however a lot of people would recognize it when they understood it. The only thing concerning white collar cr Continue Reading...
White Collar Entrepreneurial Crime Allen Stanford Briefly describe the entrepreneurial crime you researched. In 2009, the Antigua/Texas-based global financial group (which was made up several subsidiaries that were owned by the same investment fi Continue Reading...
White Collar and Corporate Crime Pose Special Problems for the Criminal Justice System? White collar and corporate crime present special challenges for the criminal justice system in several different and significant ways. First, they pose a challe Continue Reading...
White Collar Situation 1: A telephone marketer promises a solar-powered clothes dryer for $500 and then sends the buyer only a clothesline and clothes pins. The degree of responsibility depends on the exact transcript of the telephone marketing con Continue Reading...
Crime Statistics Using the FBI's crime database, Miami Beach had 9585 property crimes, 370 robberies, 473 aggravated assaults. These rates equate to 10,773 property crimes per 100,000 people; 416 robberies and 532 aggravated assaults (FBI, 2013). Th Continue Reading...
In rare cases, white collar crime does lead to death. For example, a company that covers up flaws in its research design and hurries a pharmaceutical product to market knowingly endangers lives. Automobile and toy manufacturers, food producers, bioc Continue Reading...
A major concern regarding crime today that exists within prisons as well as on the streets is the formation of gangs. "Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized, stealthy and deadly, they are reaching out from their cells to organi Continue Reading...
Crime On March 9th, 2013, two New York City police officers shot and killed a sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray, and claimed afterward that he had brandished a handgun at them after being told to show his hands (Goodman, 2013). More remarkable than the N Continue Reading...
The Prohibition made these mobsters however more daring and they begun to become involved in criminal operations that affected the American communities as well. Aside the Prohibition, it has to be stated that at that time, the United States was also Continue Reading...
This is one of the reasons that the United States Supreme Court has noted the difficulty in distinguishing common crime from the "gray zone of socially acceptable and economically justifiable business conduct. Prosecutors are not eager to 'overcrim Continue Reading...
Gender and Crime How would each of the three critical feminist perspectives -- Radical, Marxist, and Socialist -- explain this phenomenon? Do different life experiences by men and women impact the overrepresentation of men in the criminal justice sy Continue Reading...
Organized Crime has been witnessed to prosper with the infiltration on legitimate businesses in a way that they associate themselves in order to steal from the host. Organized crime organizations execute such activities in order to generate income, Continue Reading...
Measuring Crime During the latter half of the twentieth century, evidence-based policing became more commonplace, partly as a means to reduce corruption, but also as a means to make crime fighting more effective. Instruments used to measure crime at Continue Reading...
Social Marketing Plan Stop Crime, Be a Human first Historically, South Africa was colonized under a brutish Apartheid system where there was a clear distinction in South Africa between the various divisions of the population before 1991. These raci Continue Reading...
Ashley, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI relates that in 1991: "...the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles charged 13 defendants in a $1 billion false medical billing scheme that was headed by two Russian emigre broth Continue Reading...
The authors do not state that public perceptions of severity should be discounted, but merely that these should not be over-emphasized, as was the case in previous literature. Another existing mode of measuring crime severity is that of economic mo Continue Reading...
Throughout most of the 20th Century, organized crime accounted for a tremendous economic costs passed along to consumers, particularly (but hardly exclusively) in large cities like New York, and Chicago, among many others. Originally formed in this Continue Reading...
Corporate Crime In APA Style Accounting crimes in a Corporation are committed by either the employees within the firm or by other external forces and the result is that large Corporations are affected and so are the large numbers of stockholders, e Continue Reading...
National Security Implications of Transnational Organized Crime The paper deals with three important aspects, one the National Security, second the crime -- organized in many ways, and the third rogue nations that pose a threat. National security is Continue Reading...
UCR and NIBRS Introduction Two of the primary data sources used in modern criminological research are the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The UCR, compiled and published by the FBI, has been in ex Continue Reading...
UK's Membership of EU and its Impact on Insider Trading The European Union has recently introduced criminal sanctions in all its member countries in cases of market manipulation and insider trading. The new regulations are quite strict and are essen Continue Reading...
Behavioral Finance and Human Interaction a Study of the Decision-Making Processes Impacting Financial Markets Understanding the Stock Market Contrasting Financial Theories Flaws of the Efficient Market Hypothesis Financial Bubbles and Chaos The Continue Reading...
125). The use of case study examples is a brilliant tool for making the reader believe that white-collar crime is indeed something that needs to be addressed on a macro rather than a micro level, because the people injured by fraudulent accounting an Continue Reading...
Every culture may identify some behavior as deviant, but a given behavior will not be defined as deviant in all cultures: Deviance" refers to conduct which the people of a group consider so dangerous or embarrassing or irritating that they bring sp Continue Reading...
