Corporate Criminal Liability and White-Collar Crime Glory Finley Nur Kanburoglu Patrina Mohabir Rebecca Saxon Julie Stoltz Suzanne Witkowski University of Phoenix BUS 421: Business Law Mark Goodman June 1‚ 2009 Corporate Criminal Liability and White-Collar Crime White-collar crimes are non-violent criminal actions done through a business operation. These types of crimes usually do not affect one particular person‚ but a large number of individuals such as employees and investors.
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Although no crime is victimless‚ white collar crime stands alone in its ability to devastate victims through non-violent means. White collar crime is the use of schemes or frauds to manipulate or gain money‚ usually committed by a professional at work. Be it an investor committing fraud or a restaurateur embezzling from their business‚ white collar crime harms society. White collar crime costs the USA over $300 billion every year. (Firm‚ Lisa Wells Law) Its victims may be investors‚ business owners
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Ian De Jesus Law Enforcement 1 - 3B 5-1-15 White-Collar Crimes One would ask why someone with a high position‚ who is already earning vast amounts of cash or resources‚ would use backhanded tactics to maintain or advance their power. Unfortunately‚ the love of money or power have sent what seemed respectable people into corruption. White-collar crimes come in many forms and typically include fraud‚ bribery‚ Ponzi‚ schemes‚ insider trading‚ etc. They are mostly motivated by financial gain and
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White Collar Crime: Julian Assange. Case Study 2. David Lindsey CRJ 322 Criminal Mind. Professor David Prince. July 22‚ 2015 Abstract: White collar crime is said to be a victimless crime‚ however there is still a lot grey area when comes to the lines in which we see it. From the sociological to the economic impacts of the crimes. Like one case that I will be studying‚ the case of Julian Assange‚ who is one of the founders of WikiLeaks. Here is a case that the U.S has brought before court
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Social Theories and White Collar Crime Criminology 302 Social Theories and White Collar Crime Edward Sutherland believed that without including white-collar criminal offense as its own category it would contribute to errors in how we depicted the crime‚ understood the cause of offense‚ and evaluated crime in the justice system. (Simpson & Weisbud‚ 2009) Sutherland’s idea did not hold up well with scholars‚ due to missing information of the criminal‚ so his idea never took hold. Still
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extensive consequences (Roche et al. 2013: 449). White collar crimes are illegal activities committed by high status people in their course of occupation. Sociologists have studied several white collar crimes and made their own definitions based on different aspects of the crimes. Reiss & Biderman (Simpson 2013) defined white-collar crime as “violations of law to which penalties are attached and
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Outsourcing jobs to foreign countries has long seen to be a hindrance to American people when in actuality it can help the economy grow. Outsourcing is a sore subject for the majority of Americans today. Seeing jobs going overseas can be hard pressed to be seen as a good thing‚ even harder to believe it can help the economy. Looking at the way outsourcing can help everyone puts things in perspective on a global level. Imagine third world countries poverty stricken and hungry! Outsourcing in
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in the awareness of white-collar crime in the public. White- collar criminals are sent to record periods of imprisonment‚ and the general public is more in favor of such punishments (Holtfreter 2008). Lastly‚ researchers on the criminal careers of white-collar criminals display that they have more in common with more of the stereotypical street criminals than formerly thought. A major fragment of white collar-criminals do have a previous criminal record‚ not only in white-collar crimes but in other
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WHO WALKS 2 Who Walks Away From Omelas ? In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin (n.d.)‚ the narrator appears to be telling a story of child abuse from a third person point of view. In this paper I will attempt to expose the narrator‚ not only as a first person witness‚ but as a former citizen of Omelas‚ and as one of the lonely few who has walked away (pdf). LeGuin doesn’t specify the gender of our narrator or the child in this story. I believe she intentionally
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No. 2005-12-A Office of Economics Working Paper U.S. International Trade Commission Growth in Services Outsourcing to India: Propellant or Drain on the U.S. Economy? William Greene* U.S. International Trade Commission January 2006 *The author is with the Office of Economics of the U.S. International Trade Commission. Office of Economics working papers are the result of the ongoing professional research of USITC staff and are solely meant to represent the opinions and professional
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