PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Content Analysis, Risk Assessment, Methamphetamine
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Overview: economic crime: a brief taxonomy, white collar crime, psychopathy in the corporate world, outlaw motorcycle gangs (omgs, the (cid:862)big four(cid:863, omg and crime, rnr implications of economic crime and omg membership. Economic crime: a very brief taxonomy: crimes against property, theft under 5,000 vs. over 5,000, ex. Stealing a tv, laptop, clothing, food (various price ranges: possession of property obtained by crime, break and enter (b&e) (can be violent if involves indictable offense, fraud, fraud, identity theft and identity fraud, forgery, ex. These offenses can be looked up on the criminal code website. Invented the ponzi scheme: convince people to invest money and would take most for himself continuing with more investors for each investor he gets pocketing most the money for himself. This ultimately fails/collapses when he is unable to obtain enough investors to keep the scheme going.
