SOCI 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White-Collar Crime, Hierarchical Organization, Making Money
31 Aug 2016
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All readings outside of the textbook will be on blackboard. Classes will involve a lot of active participation. There will be 4 types of assignments: reading questions (10% of final grade), group assignments (10%), case studies (20%), and a final case study (45%) Attendance is not mandatory, but critical to success. Students must get a minimum of 447 of 500 possible points to get an a in the course. Ranking problematic behavior and determining appropriate punishments . This exercise was meant to highlight society"s view of serious crimes (white collar crime damages many people yet isn"t usually viewed as a serious crime) - street crime vs. Suite crimes tend to be financial in nature and committed by large businesses and corporations. Suite crime is defined as, crimes committed by social, political, and economic elites and refers specifically to crime that is not person-to-person. Prestige of the offenders (police officers, ceos, government officials, etc)
