475 White Collar Crime (3)
This course examines activities variously called white-collar crimes, crimes of
privilege, corporate and government crimes, and upperworld crimes. The purposes
of the course are (1) to describe, analyze, and assess social impact of these
offenses, (2) to examine the capacity of existing theories in criminology and
social deviance to account for those activities, (3) to describe the
responsibilities, powers, and activities of those agencies which have
jurisdiction over them, and (4) to assess the effectiveness of various legal
sanctions in controlling such activities and to review the problems involved in
legislation intended to achieve that control.