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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"White collar crime"”.
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White Collar Crime and Morality: How Occupation Shapes Perception
White-collar crime is on the rise in the United States and globally. The general public has historically been seen as apathetic to white-collar criminals and their crimes; however more recent studies have shown that prior conclusions on perceptions of white-collar criminals may have been …
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PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME IN FEDERAL COURT: UNDERSTANDING PATHS AND PROCESSES
The question of whether ‘white collar’ crimes are treated more leniently by society dates to the first use of the phrase by Edwin Sutherland in 1939. One of the most important ways in which this leniency may manifest is in the criminal prosecution and sentencing of violations of law. And yet, the …
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The investigation of white collar crime in England and Wales and France: a comparative study
The investigation of white collar crime in England & Wales has traditionally been conducted by the police. As the need for specialisation has increased the police forces have responded with the formation of fraud squads. These departments comprise of detective officers who have been trained to …
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The Financial Crisis and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and Its Link to Ponzi Schemes
… are over 50 years of age and predominantly White-males, in keeping with most studies on White-collar crime perpetrators.</p> <p>In conclusion, the study provides an overall perspective on Ponzi schemes and Ponzi perpetrators never before quantified to this degree. It establishes typologies …
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The South African bread cartel: a single case study exploring the scope for responsive regulation of white-collar crime in a developing country
Criminology traditionally focused on street crimes. In 1939, Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, which encouraged criminologists to turn their attention to crimes of the rich and powerful. In particular, Australian researcher John Braithwaite has produced a large body of work …
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Bankster's Paradise: The Importance Of Discourse In Creating A Haven For Criminogenic Banks In The United States
… can contribute to a cultural climate in which white-collar crime is no longer considered "deviant," but rather is considered part of a normally functioning political economy. The 2012 money laundering case involving HSBC is examined in conjunction with the rhetoric of popular financial …
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Black sheep on green pastures-prevention and disclosure of accounting fraud in the federal republic of germany- a study on the effectiveness of the legal guidelines for preventing and disclosing accounting fraud
… of KPMG in 2010 the share of companies regarding white collar crime as a serious problem for economy increased by nine percent in 2006 to 2010. Blue chips companies even valued this problem at ninety percent. It was assumed that the extend of economy crimes will increase further. The German …
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Climbing the corporate ladder: desired skills and successful psychopaths
… the probability of systemic psychopathy and white-collar crime. The current study will provide a deeper understanding of successful psychopaths while exploring the role of the “Westernized” corporation in recruiting successful psychopaths into their businesses through character descriptions …
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POLICING INTERNET FRAUD: A study of the tensions between private and public models of policing fraudulent activity in cyberspace with particular focus on South Korea and special reference to the United Kingdom and the United States
… argue the scope of police work with regard to white collar crime, because the public believe that police forces do not effectively control internet fraud and non-internet fraud. By drawing upon various global sources this thesis analyzes the tensions between the respective interests of the …
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Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow on the Eve of the Great Reforms, 1850-1870
… as well as the previously unstudied issue of white-collar crime in imperial Russia. I have found that debt was ubiquitous in Russian life, as in other pre-industrial societies in which cash was scarce, incomes erratic, and formal credit institutions insufficient. It was also overwhelmingly …
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Qui Tam legal concept and practice: evolution of the legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States of America
… and prosecutorial agencies. To investigate white-collar crime they have to spend increasingly huge resources, both financial and intellectual. The relative scarcity of these resources in the post-crisis developed economies has paved way for the qui tam legislation to give governments chance …
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The effects of money laundering on the Canadian real estate market
White collar criminals benefit from their status and positions. Further, they invest the proceeds of crime into the Canadian real estate market, driving up the price of home ownership for working-class Canadians. This thesis explores the relationship between FINTRAC financial transaction reporting …
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An analysis of the law and practice of securitisation
… of securitisation to facilitate financial crime. The masterminds (if its appropriate to use such description) of the scandal, as this thesis will unfold later, cleverly used thousands of securitisation and hedging transactions to raise funds in order to give financial creditability to a …
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Examining the impact of changes in sentencing guidelines and offender demographics on sentencing of white collar offenders
Using the most recent data compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission and conducted within the conceptual framework of the focal concerns perspective, the current study investigates the impact of offender characteristics, case characteristics, and legally relevant factors on the sentencing …
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LA FORMA DELL'ACQUA. IL RICICLAGGIO E L'ECONOMIA NERA. STRUMENTI NORMATIVI DI PREVENZIONE E CONTRASTO.
Tutti i criminali – mafiosi, narcotrafficanti, evasori e corrotti – hanno bisogno di ripulire i loro capitali sporchi. Senza la ripulitura, il denaro delle mafie sarebbe un ricavato inerte; perché il crimine si rafforzi è necessario che quel denaro torni in circolo, diventi lo strumento …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with …
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La responsabilità da reato degli enti nel contrasto alla corruzione internazionale
Oggetto del presente lavoro è il ruolo che la disciplina nazionale della responsabilità da reato degli enti, di cui al d. lgs. 8 giugno 2001, n. 231, riveste (o può rivestire) nel contrasto al fenomeno corruttivo internazionale, così cercando di dar risposta al seguente quesito: può una legge …
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Suspect Wealth – A Risk to Stability, Development and Sustainability: The case of Bermuda, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Anguilla
In the global financial architecture, British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean and North Atlantic are of material significance. Post-colonialism, these relatively homogeneous, archipelagic territories with financial centres have been the recipients of soft-domination by metropolitan interests. …