White Collar Crime: Villains and Heroes

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White Collar Crime: Villains and Heroes This course will examine many of the famous white collar crimes of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We will examine how these crimes were perpetrated, how the criminals were caught and their ramifications from legal, ethical and social justice perspectives. By using cases, articles and films, we will first learn about the factual background in these accounting crimes, and then we will investigate the ethical problems that were created. Finally, the role of the whistleblowers in these famous crimes and the difficulties they faced will also be explored.