Essays Tagged: "Corporate Crime"
This essay identifes what white collar (or corporate) crime is, how it is allowed to exist, its effects and how better the problem could be dealt with, including legislative reform.
This essay will commence with an examination of what corporate crime is and how it affects our society. It will then examine the conditions within our so ... s and how it affects our society. It will then examine the conditions within our society that allow corporate crime to exist and the way in which the corporate world is able to exercise influence to m ... erseas.This essay will examine the difference between crimes committed by individuals in pursuit of corporate profit and crimes committed by individuals for individuals. The whole approach to this iss ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
White collar crime
In this paper the exciting criminal phenomenon known as white-collar crime will be discussed. Corporate Crime and Computer Crime will be discussed in detail. Crime preventative agencies such as ... mislabeling of goods, violation of weights and measures statutes, conspiring to fix prices, evading corporate taxes, computer crimes, and so on. White-collar crime is most distinctively defined in ter ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Corporate VS. Individual Responsibility
Susan GustafsonBusiness EthicsProfessor Mark Matthews, Ph.D.March 12, 2004Corporate Crime--Who Should Be Held Responsible?Corporate vs. Individual Responsibility"Experience h ... h power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."--Thomas JeffersonRampant corporate crime has forced us to question, once again, whom society should hold responsible for dama ... brought to light by market watchdogs such as Russell Mokhiber. He published a report on the top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade for the 1990's. In his report Mokhiber stresses the high cost of c ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Insider Trading and White Collar Crime
sider trading like many other forms can involve big social networks, and small social networks. The corporate crime that is being committed is that a person or group of people misuses certain informat ... planned it, but the information was shared. It was an open awareness relationship only between the corporate players like Levine and those like Wilkis, not to the owners of companies like Drexel. Buy ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
"Crimes of the powerful go largely unreported, undetected, and unpunished." Discuss.
ty, environment crime, tax evasion, and crimes against the consumer.In considering the existence of corporate crimes and acknowledging that to each victim there is an individual cost, how can we expla ... me year. (Pearce, 1976, in Muncie, 1996)Society's attitude towards "ordinary" crimes as opposed to "corporate" crimes are often polarised for the following reasons. Ordinary crimes such as burglary, v ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
White Collar Crime
The crime of choice for the businessperson seems to be white-collar corruption. Corporate corruption has been around since business was started but lately there has been a swell in ... records has revealed the opposite has occurred. Almost every exec that has been acquitted in major corporate crime cases has also stepped up to the witness stand.When cases end with a hung jury it is ... ial is held. This still may hold true in criminal crime cases, but it doesn't apply in the world of corporate crime.
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Executive Mis-Conduct
cial gain" (Cornell University Law School, 2007). White-collar crime can therefore overlap into the corporate crime world because the opportunity for fraud, computer crime, embezzlement, etc. is more ... tors, executive bonuses and meeting budget plans. Financial impropriety can also involve the use of corporate finances for personal activities. Some examples of financial impropriety include, reportin ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Defining White Collar Crime
lar crime also overlap and have a close relationship with the following crime classifications:•Corporate crime•Occupational crime•Governmental crime•State crime•Environmental ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Corporate Crime Memo
To: Robert FaulknerFrom: Katherine CespedesDate: 10/16/2011Subject: Analysis of Corporate CrimeFlight Transportation CorporationIntroduction: Flight Transportation Corp. started as ... dervalued at $10 a stock. They would take investors and stockbrokers to their elegant and expensive corporate headquarters. They had expensive cars and furniture, planes a gym and other expensive mate ... lleging securities fraud, check kiting, inflated revenues on nonexistent business, and diversion of corporate money for personal use." (Wojahn)Recipes: This case was mainly involved in misrepresentati ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
History of White Collar Crime
financial crime investigations were focused specifically on fraud. Marshall Clinard's book release, Corporate Crime, reveals that between 1975 and 1976 the country's 582 largest corporations had viola ... ons and their stakeholders. There were also provisions for an increase in the maximum sentences for corporate crime and providing fines of up to $5 million for falsifying company records. Even with th ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays