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This module examines a broad range of crimes which fall under the conceptual umbrella of white-collar crime—such as, occupational, corporate, state-corporate, and governmental and state crime. White-collar crimes typically occur within an occupational context, are financially motivated, and rarely involve direct, interpersonal harm, yet, have the capacity to cause harm on a wide scale. Students will draw on criminological theory in examining white-collar crime and its causes. Case studies of white-collar crime will be used to evaluate and identify the limitations of national and international law, regulation, and the criminal justice system more broadly in responding to and preventing white-collar crime.
Topic Outline • introduction—defining WCC, WCC typologies, the criminalisation and social construction of WCC. • theoretical perspectives on WCC. • occupational and avocational crime. • corporate crime. • intersections between organised and WCC—enterprise and contrepreneurial crime. • state-corporate and finance crime. • state crime, governmental crime, and political WCC. • techno and cyber WCC. • policing and regulating WCC. • prosecuting WCC. • WCC prevention.
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