2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 04, 2024  
2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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SOC 380 - White-Collar Crime

Surveys the broad range of white-collar crimes from employee embezzlement to corporate pollution law violations. Includes extensive coverage of the theories proposed to explain white-collar crimes, the methodologies used to study white-collar wrongdoing and a review of the strategies proposed to control white-collar crimes. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or 150 or ANT 102. Also listed as CRM 380. Fulfills: LASR. Notes: Category D.(3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Define white collar crime.
  2. Detail how law and its enforcement is tied to power and inequality in society.
  3. Explain how pertinent criminological theories connect to the commission of white-collar offenses.
  4. Outline the costs of white-collar crime to individuals and society.



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