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    White-collar crime has been defined and classified by legal scholars and criminologists in various ways. This type of crime has no clear-cut definition and means different things to different disciplines. There was a number of attempts to give an explanation to this kind of illegal activities. However, it remains quite challenging even for scholars to determine this issue in a pithy manner. An inclusive definition of white-collar crime would refer to the blatant abuse of a genuine professional role

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    Financial Fraud in Canada

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    Vaccaro (9356290) Joe Vincelli (9234403) Kyle Zarmair (9055177) John Molson School of Business April 4th 2011 Table of Contents Evolution of financial fraud in Canada…………………………………………...……4 Current types of fraud Canadian financial institutions A) Internal fraud…………………………………………………………………………..5 Identity theft……………….……………………………………………………….6 Illegal insider trading………………………….…………………………………...7 Wire fraud…………………………….……………………………………………7 Bank

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    Transnational crimes are the organization and implementation of unlawful business ventures by a group of individuals working in more than one country. Transnational’s are able to reposition at any time, make choices based on relative global employment and capitalize on new prospects. These inviduals play a major role in the globalization of transnational crimes and contributes tremendously in organized crimes. Transnational criminals have been one of the largest beneficiaries of globalization. Over

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    Chambliss’s aim was to find out what similarities credited local, state and national political figures share. He speculates that all of these political figures have, to some extent been involved with a form of white collar crime. Chambliss focuses on Seattle’s history of white collar crime and political corruption throughout adjoining its associations with bureaucracy, politics and power. With the intention to gain clarification and substance behind his given argument. In Seattle, Washington, in the early

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    punished as adults. During the progressive era, which occurred between 1880 and 1920, social conditions in the United States were characterized by large waves of immigration and a large increase in urbanization. As a direct result, hundreds of needy children wandered the streets, and many became involved in criminal activity. Initially, children who were convicted of crimes were housed with adult criminals. Social activists, law makers, and other officials realized that children institutionalized with

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    GANGS AS AN ORGANIZATION THE UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAAD & TOBAGO INSTITUTE FOR CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY BSC CRIME AND PUBLIC SAFETY STUDENT ID: 53759 UTT VALSAYN CAMPUS COURSE CODE: CRIM 3001 The issue of the gang as an organization is contested. Discuss the concept of the gang as an organization using evidence and research to support your arguments. To understand the functions of a gang as an organization we would delve into the meaning of the word gang as well as highlight the factors that defines

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    OUTLINE: In society we constantly encounter many different illicit acts and crime organizations. There is White Collar Crime, Organization Deviance, Corporate Crime and Organized crime. Many activities overlap one another but all of them eventually lead to an erosion of quality of life in society as it affects basic rights to peace, order and good government. Organized crime consists of a group of criminals who tend to participate in illicit activities usually in the purpose of making profit. There

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    OUTLINE: In society we constantly encounter countless illicit acts and crime organizations. There is White Collar Crime, Organization Deviance, Corporate Crime and Organized crime. Several activities overlap one another but all of them eventually lead to an erosion of quality of life in society as it affects basic rights to peace, order and good government. Organized crime consists of a group of criminals who tend to participate in illicit activities usually in the purpose of making profit. There

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    Probably the single most influential and certainly the best-known crime theory among all the sociological theories of crime is that of strain theory. Strain theories argue that there are certain socially generated pressures or forces that drive people to commit crimes. More specifically, the classic strain theories argue that people, particularly those of lower class status are pressured into crime when they are prevented from achieving cultural goals like monetary success or middle-class status

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    Under this system, citizens were appointed with the responsibility of maintaining order and controlling crime. Men were formed into groups of ten, called a tything. Ten tythings were grouped into a hundred and were supervised by a constable. Groups of ten hundreds created a shire, controlled by reeves. The word shire-reeve is the derivative of our current

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