LAWS 3501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Routine Activity Theory, Problem Gambling, Law Abiding Citizen
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Case study: ponzi scheme: one of the biggest ponzi schemes in canadian history was committed by businessmen. Individuals were asked to invest in a gold refinement business, where they would get a high rate of return on their investment (35%) Instead, sorenson and brost used money from new investors to pay off old investors. From 1999 to 2008, more than 2400 individuals invested. The nature of emcs: emcs commonly categorized as: Illegal business activities categorized into: white-collar crime. Swindles - using deception or trickery to steal: chiseling - illegally cheating an organization or individual. First official laws came into effect in 1997. Hells angels - as a criminal organization : courts have declared street gangs to be criminal organizations (r. v. Aur lius, 2007: canadian security intelligence service (csis) estimates that there were approximately 700 organized crime groups in canada in 2011, organized criminal groups are involved in a wide range of crimes:
