White Collar Crime

Catalog description

Through lectures, reading assignments, and practical exercises, students break down applicable state and federal laws; examine the nature, investigation, and prosecution of white-collar crimes; compare the types of corporate, governmental, environmental, and economic crimes that arise; and assess their economic and sociological impacts. Practical exercises define the inter-related roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and paralegals in the investigation and prosecution of white-collar crimes. credit hours: 3