Corporate & White-Collar Crime

Catalog description

This course explores types, causes, and correlates of white-collar/corporate criminal offenses. Students will learn about the major types of white-collar crime, understand and evaluate competing theories used to explain white-collar/corporate criminality and critique the system's response to this type of offending. Students will learn about how class, sex and race impact upon white-collar crime and its punishment. Students will apply law and theory to actual cases through a case study approach emphasizing the financial and social costs of white-collar offending.