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PACE - Criminal Justice and Criminology (CJC) - White Collar Crime
CJC 475      White Collar Crime
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.
Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences
Department: Criminal Justice & Criminoloy
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