White Collar and Corporate Crime

Catalog description

This course will identify, explore, and study the unique criminological characteristics of the crime subtypes white collar crime and corporate crime. In addition to developing a formal definition of white collar crime and corporate crime, students will study: (a) the nature of the criminal act and the criminal actor(s); (b) the extent or scope of the white collar/corporate crime problem; (c) the factors that contribute to the crime decision, and (d) the various prevention and mitigation strategies used to address the white collar crime/corporate crime problem. Students will learn to evaluate historical cases of white collar crime/corporate crime and apply criminological theory to actual cases.