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191-015 Corporate and White-Collar Crime | |
Note | Formerly available as 191-417. Students who have completed 191-417 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 3rd and 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Prof A Freiberg |
Prerequisites | 37.5 points of 2nd/3rd-year Criminology subjects for 3rd-year students. Admission to Criminology Honours for 4th-year students. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture and a 90-minute seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject examines individual and organisational forms of white collar or corporate crime found in both the public and private sectors. Students will gain an understanding of the problems of definition of the various forms of business, occupational or corporate criminality and an appreciation of their importance in the context of social life of the community. Students will be introduced to the forms of individual business or occupational crime, including such forms of financial crime as insider trading, and will learn some of the problems which concern the regulation of white collar crime, including the features of law which cause particular problems in the control of corporate misconduct. |
Assessment | A research essay of 3500 words, and a class test or other written work totalling 1500 words. |
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