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Corporate Crime

Corporate Crime. Class 1. Administrative. Give quiz Collect paper proposals?. Review. Various kinds of street crime Child abductions Serial killing Stalking Organized Crime In each case the myth is that these are more common and serious than they really are (and growing more common).

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Corporate Crime

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  1. Corporate Crime Class 1

  2. Administrative Give quiz Collect paper proposals?

  3. Review Various kinds of street crime Child abductions Serial killing Stalking Organized Crime In each case the myth is that these are more common and serious than they really are (and growing more common)

  4. Today • Definitions • White Collar and Corporate Crime Activities • Extent of Corporate Crime • Why Do Corporations Commit Crimes? • White Collar and Corporate Crime Myth • Corporate Crime and Law Enforcement • Key Ideas from Today

  5. I. Definitions • What do we mean by “white collar crime?” • What do we mean by “corporate crime?” • What is a corporation? How does it differ from any other company or business? • What is the “corporate crime myth”? How does it differ from other crime myths?

  6. II. White Collar and Corporate Crime Activities • Violation of consumer and worker safety regulations • Anti-competitive practices • Violation of environmental laws • Violation of securities laws • Violation of immigration laws

  7. II. Corporate Crime Activities • Violation of employment and labor laws • Violation of tax laws • Violation of export regulations • Influence peddling

  8. III. Extent of Corporate Crime • Data on deaths from corporate crime versus deaths from street crime • What is wrong with these data? • Extent of the cost of corporate crime • What is wrong with these data?

  9. IV. Why Do Corporations Commit Crimes? • Crimes that are accidental • Crimes that result from ignorance • Crimes that are clearly intentional

  10. V. White Collar and Corporate Crime Myth • Experts claim it covers up two “fundamental truths” • Law Enforcement can do little to control and less to prevent street crime • Total of all violent and property crime is less serious by far than total white collar and corporate crime

  11. VI. Corporate Crime and Law Enforcement • Idea that business is “over-regulated” • Enforcement via “consent decrees” • Relationship of corporations and government

  12. VII. Key Ideas from Today • Differences between corporate crime and white-collar crime • The corporate crime myth • Cost of corporate crime versus street crime • Different reasons companies commit crimes • Fundamental Truth – We cannot control street crime but corporate crime is more serious anyway • Law enforcement deals with street crime and corporate crime very differently

  13. Next Time • Drugs and Crime

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