CJ380 White Collar Crime
Recommended prerequisite: CJ 201
This course compares and contrasts the deviance of upper-echelon "crime in the suites" with conventional "crime in the streets." The original conception of white-collar crime presented by Edwin M. Sutherland and his classic research on corporate crime in the 1930s and 1940s is used as a benchmark to discuss the subsequent issues and research that have emerged in recent years. This course documents the great breadth of white-collar and corporate offenses, ranging from restraint of trade, unfair labor practices, consumer fraud, and political corruption, to the areas of environmental, medical, and computer crime. Offered spring semester. Cf. SO 380 and
BU380.
Cross Listed Courses
BU380