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Mascolo, Robert. "The significance of white-collar crime /." Staten Island, N.Y. : [s.n.], 2004. http://library.wagner.edu/theses/business/2004/thesis_bus_2004_masco_signi.pdf.
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Bethune, Richard Alan. "Profiling white-collar criminals : what is white-collar crime, who perpetrates it and why?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10609.
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Following a period of resurgence in academic interest in the subject over the last 30-40 years, white-collar crime has found greater prominence within criminology. Efforts over this period have however failed to produce a single satisfactory and agreed-upon definition, a consistent and coherent body of research, and a single theory which can account for all forms of white-collar crime. This thesis aims to address certain shortcomings in the current state of white-collar crime theory and understanding. Part 1) addresses the issues of both conceptual definition of white-collar crime and specific behaviours as proscribed within the Legislation. Part 2) examines current criminological theory and research on individual differences (arguably the biggest gap in current knowledge in the area of white-collar crime); it examines the origins and current state of offender profiling in crime prevention, before Part 3) presents original research on establishing offence-specific white-collar criminal profiles based on demographic, sociological, psychological, organisational and motivational factors. Part 4) examines why certain individuals may perpetrate certain crimes in certain situations, beginning with a review of those few white-collar crime specific theories that do exist, before reviewing traditional sociological theories and attempting to apply them to white-collar crime; finally in Part 5) a new conceptual framework for white-collar crime is presented, which is referred to as the theory of ‘Differential Assimilation’. I bring together each of these chapters and situate the thesis within current research and literature, summarising how it engages and contributes to the field of white-collar crime. I include suggestions for the practical application of certain white-collar crime prevention techniques within organisations.
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Ray, James V. "Psychopathy, Attitudinal Beliefs, and White Collar Crime." Scholar Commons, 2007. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3889.
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Psychopathy has become a highly researched personality disorder in order to better understand criminal and violent behavior (Hare, 1993). Measures of psychopathy have proven to be useful tools in predicting outcomes of institutionalized populations by predicting future dangerousness (Hare, 1999). While several experts in the field of psychopathy allude to the idea of the successful psychopath and their presence in the corporate world (Hare, 1993; Babiak & Hare, 2006), very little research has been done in this area. The current study builds upon the small amount of empirical research by testing hypotheses regarding the relationship between psychopathic personality traits and intentions to engage in white collar crime. Using a sample of 181 university students, psychopathic personality traits were measured using the Psychopathic Personality Inventory - Revised (PPI-R). In addition, scales were developed to measure attitudes toward white collar offending and vignettes were constructed to measures intentions to engage in white collar crime. Four relationships are of primary focus: 1.) Do psychopathic personality traits account for variability in attitudes toward white collar crime?; 2.) Do attitudes toward white collar crime correlate with intentions to engage in white collar crime?; 3.) Are psychopathic personality traits related to intentions to offend and?; 4.) Do attitudes toward offending mediate the relationship between psychopathy and intentions to offend? A major finding is that the Self-Centered Impulsivity factor of the PPI-R accounts for a significant amount of variance in intentions to engage in white collar crime and environmental crime. Additional relationships between psychopathy, attitudes, and intentions are also discussed.
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Karson, Lawrence. "American smuggling as white collar crime, 1789-1939." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683034.
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Schoepfer, Andrea. "Exploring white-collar crime and the American dream." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004604.
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Hunter, Ben. "Narratives of Change: Exploring Desistance from White-Collar Crime." Thesis, Keele University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499349.
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Wong, Yuk-see, and 黃玉司. "White collar crime: major bank fraud cases inHong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976426.
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Lugo, Melissa Anne. "Self-Control, Attitudinal Beliefs, and White-Collar Crime Intentions." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4721.
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Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime (1990) has received a great deal of empirical examination in the criminology, yet the application of this theory to white-collar crime offenders has not received a great deal of attention. Research that has been conducted in the realm of white-collar crime has yielded mixed support for low self-control in explaining such offenses (Simpson and Piquero, 2002; Reed and Yeager, 1996; Langton et al., 2006; Blickle, 2006). The current study seeks to supplement the literature by focusing not simply on the direct causal links between self-control and white-collar offending, but also exploring how attitudes play a role between self-control and intentions to engage in white-collar crime. Specifically, this study examines whether attitudes towards environmental offending mediate and moderate the relationship between self-control and intentions to engage in environmental white-collar crime. The results indicated that attitudes toward environmental offending did have a mediating effect, but the effect of attitudes did not significantly vary as a function of self-control. Subsequently, simple slopes analysis found that the effect of attitudes was only significant among those with average and high levels of self-control. Implications for the general theory of crime and future directions for white-collar crime research are discussed.
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Follert, Florian. "On the punishment of white-collar and tax crime." Universität Leipzig, 2019. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33907.
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Economic and tax crimes account for a significant proportion of criminal activity and result in considerable economic damage. In Germany, two of the most prominent offenders in this area in recent years were Thomas Middelhoff and Uli Hoeneß, both of whom served jail sentences. Taking advantage of the widespread media coverage of both cases, the following paper draws on economic theory to compare prison terms with fines. It argues that fines are preferred from an economic perspective and can therefore be considered a useful firstchoice punishment in cases involving white-collar and tax crimes. The paper sees itself in this regard as a plea.
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Van, Slyke Shanna. "Social identification and public opinion on white-collar crime." Tallahassee, Florida : Florida State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10272009-160114/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2009.Advisor: Thomas G. Blomberg, Florida State University, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed on Mar. 11, 2010). Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 133 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Wong, Yuk-see. "White collar crime : major bank fraud cases in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1990. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12840361.
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Herbert, Carey Lynn 1967. "A test of self-control explanations of white-collar crime." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288709.
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Nowhere is the tendency to typologize in criminological research more evident than in the area of white-collar crime research, which is often aimed at distinguishing white-collar criminals and their crimes from other types of criminals and their offenses. This study incorporates a test of the applicability of Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory to white-collar crime--a form of criminal conduct to which the theory's critics assert it is inapplicable. For those who attribute more planning and sophistication to white-collar crime than to other forms of offending, explanations for white-collar offending that reference impulsivity and inattention to the consequences of action are decidedly unsatisfactory. Analyses of survey data, collected as part of the Tucson Youth Project, indicate that self-control is a significant predictor of workplace offending. From an operational standpoint, the relative merits of behavioral versus attitudinal measures of self-control were considered. These findings suggest that behavioral measures of self-control are better predictors of offending. Although possibly a measurement artifact, the findings also suggest that attitudinal self-control is only spuriously related to offending. The perceived need to distinguish white-collar crime stems from the dissimilarities between white-collar crime and "ordinary" street crime. These crimes are often separated along spatial lines, and their perpetrators are often separated along race and socioeconomic status lines. Testing the validity of these distinctions was another objective of this study. Analyses were performed to determine whether the patterns of association between offending and known correlates of offending are similar for both white-collar and non-white-collar crime. The results indicate that offending in the workplace and offending beyond the workplace are more similar than not. One important finding is that self-control explains less of the variation in white-collar offending than in non-white-collar offending. One plausible explanation for this finding is that criminal opportunity plays a relatively more important role in workplace deviance than in other contexts. The mechanisms by which organizations affect the behavior of individuals are, of course, still a matter of theoretical conjecture, and an important subject for future research.
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Langton, Lynn E. "Can general strain theory explain white-collar crime? a preliminary investigation /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004785.
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Harbinson, Erin. "Is Corrections "Collar" Blind?: Examining the Predictive Validity of a Risk/Needs Assessment Tool on White-Collar Offenders." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504800469606019.
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Kodatt, Zachary Hayes. "Afraid to lose: The fear of falling's effect on white-collar crime." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1972.
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This study examined the potential moderating effects that the fear of falling may have on potential white-collar crime perpetrators using rational choice and differential association theory perspectives. A self-report, factorial survey measurement tool utilizing three hypothetical vignettes placing respondents in a business situation with the potential to commit insider trading was given to 612 students at a Midwestern university. Results indicate that the fear of falling had no moderating effects, differential association theory was partially supported in Vignette 1, and rational choice theory was partially supported across all three vignettes.
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Muftah, Mustafa Ramadan. "Corporate criminal liability : an analytical study of the application of the criminal law to companies and to their directing management." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1998. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU603189.
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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the concept of corporate criminal liability in Britain and elsewhere when comparison is needed. The concept of holding a corporation criminally liable is not new, it has been known for a long time, but the development in the last century and especially in the last quarter of this century is the main reason to turn and focus the public's attention towards blaming corporations for a quite wide range of society's ills. As a result of decisions by corporate executives or managers, and because corporation's negligence and pursuit of profits at any cost, may cause harm and inflicted risks on workers, consumers and the general public. It can be shown that many accidents indicate willful violations of health, safety and environmental regulations. Despite the fact that violations may cause serious harm to the entire communities (eg cases of toxic chemical dumps, and radioactive water leaking from improperly maintained nuclear reactors), nonetheless prosecution of corporation is not always successful. Moreover, while corporations are accused of polluting the environment, and are blamed for destroying the economic structure of a community, at the same time they may be praised for community service projects, and be credited with providing jobs. The concept of the separate legal personality of corporations has posed many questions when dealing with corporations or their executives and managers. Even with the development of the criminal law regarding the concept of crime and the various attempts to bring corporations under the umbrella of criminal law the problem have not fully resolved. Practical problems occur when considering whether corporations are capable of acting themselves. This thesis is an attempt to follow the development of corporate criminal liability, discuss the present state of the law and ask what is the best view which should be taken to achieve the goal of criminal law to control all kinds of behaviour that are appropriate to be controlled by the criminal law whether of individuals or corporations and other forms of organizations. The views of those who argue that companies cannot be subjected to criminal punishment because they do not have the requisite mens rea to commit crimes, and because of the difficulty of imposing certain penalties such as imprisonment or the death penalty on corporations, are incorrect. Changes in public attitudes towards wrongful conduct by corporations and their increasing role in every aspect of daily life, bringing with it increasing number of accidents and disasters has led to a corpus of literature which is prepared to attribute blame to corporations for their misbehaviour.
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Ramsay, Douglas E. (Douglas Ewen) Carleton University Dissertation Management Studies. "Toward a predictive model of human resource requirements for white collar crime investigations." Ottawa, 1993.
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Fun, Yu-jing, and 范優晶. "Surreal estate: Hong Kong's property sector and white-collar crime discourse: y Yujing Fun." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47869525.
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It has been claimed by some that Hong Kong, the world’s freest economy, is
without corruption or other kinds of white-collar crime. Statistical sources suggest
that these crimes are indeed rare in the city. This study examined those claims by
looking at the practices of Hong Kong’s real estate industry, specifically through the
lens of a case study on 39 Conduit Road. The property development known as 39
Conduit Road became the centre of controversy in June 2010 when the developer,
Henderson Land, was accused of market manipulation. The study found that many
common practices in the real estate industry, such as intimidation and deception,
could constitute an abuse of power by real estate developers. The abuse of power,
especially when done in the course of an occupation, is a fundamental part of the
sociological discourse of white-collar crime. The study concluded therefore that it
was not that white-collar crime did not exist in Hong Kong but more that these
behaviours were structurally rendered invisible. The study located the failure to
observe these abuses in the city’s power structure where the local government used
its economic policy of laissez faire to turn issues into non-issues, and in its legal
culture where ambiguity in the law was construed as a right to act.published_or_final_version
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Ling, Eric. "Fraud and social change : whistle-blowing and white-collar crime in a major corporation." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1283178431.
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Bartels, Tyler. "An Overview and Examination of the Prevention and Punishment of White Collar Crimes." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1571.
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White-collar crime is explained from an economist’s perspective. Economic models typically begin by assuming individuals behave rationally. By extension, economic models of crime suggest that white-collar criminals may be acting more rationally than a casual observer may assume. This thesis will identify the benefits and drawbacks of different regulations and laws by exploring several case studies of white-collar events.B.S.B.A.
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Zukowski, Susan Lynn. "Biopsychosocial Factors That Discriminate Between White Collar Offenders and Business Professionals." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/477.
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White collar crime is pervasive with a larger financial impact to society than violent or street crime, yet it has been understudied. Violent and street offender research has moved beyond the examination of motive and opportunity to study personality, demographics, sociological influences, and psychological influences on development and criminal behavior; however, the bulk of white collar offender research has focused on greed as a motivator and organizational opportunity. Legislative efforts have attempted to curtail white collar crime, but incidents of crime continue to rise, resulting in a continued need to understand white collar offenders and the influences on offender behavior. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the multivariate difference between white collar offenders (n = 62) and business professionals (n = 121). Theoretically guided by the biopsychosocial model and prior empirical findings, 36 variables were univariately tested for group differences; 10 were significant and used in discriminant function analysis. White collar offenders tended to be female, have high neuroticism and alcohol abuse scores, and have low scores on narcissism and attribution. Drug use was positively correlated with the white collar offender profile, while income, openness, hostility, and anger were inversely related. The profile and correlates provide a deeper understanding of those who choose to cross legal and ethical lines. Positive social change could be realized through targeted collegiate business training programs to address risk characteristics and promote protective factors of ethics, integrity, and leadership.
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Johnstone, Peter. "The investigation of white collar crime in England and Wales and France : a comparative study." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312930.
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Pfenniger, Karine. "Obstructing justice in white-collar crime investigations : When suspects appeal against Switzerland's Mutual Legal Assistance." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-402950.
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Logan, Matthew W. "Coping with Imprisonment: Testing the Special Sensitivity Hypothesis for White-Collar Offenders." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439305722.
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Blum, Timothy. "Profits Over Patriotism: Black Market Crime in World War II Sydney." Thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7985.
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This thesis examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of black market crime in World War II Sydney. Using previously classified archives, coupled with oral sources and newspaper articles I provide a complete survey of this phenomenon. As a concept the black market was a social construct with a level of stigma attached to offenders that would not exist in peace time. This was moral policing. I begin by discussing the relationship between the geography and morals of the city. Both women and men in Sydney related to the black market differently. I outline and evaluate the official response to the problem. I also examine broader community attitudes in relation to this issue. The research provided here should form the basis for a more comprehensive understanding of white-collar crime and the moral regulation of behaviour.
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Stadler, William Andrew. "White-Collar Offenders and the Prison Experience: An Empirical Examination of the “Special Sensitivity” to Imprisonment Hypothesis." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281991890.
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Aranha, Maira Fabio. "An Exploratory Study of the Variation in Japan's Embezzlement Rates via Institutional Anomie Theory." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1967878091&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Leong, Soi Wan. "A self-report survey on occupational crime and gambling-related crime and deviance committed by personnel working in Macau gaming industry." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953496.
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Lee, Wai-tak. "A study of white-collar crime : the circumvention of the textiles export control system of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18649488.
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Lee, Wai-tak, and 李偉德. "A study of white-collar crime: the circumvention of the textiles export control system of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978113.
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Fresco, Joana Costa Pereira. "As burlas como crime económico: um olhar sobre o crime e características dos ofensores." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4769.
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Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em CriminologiaA Criminalidade Económica, também muitas vezes referenciada como Crimes de Colarinho Branco centra-se numa temática de importante relevância no contexto social atual. Cada vez mais, se verifica a evolução de uma sociedade consumista, onde lucros e o ganho financeiro e monetário dos indivíduos começa a demonstrar um papel central na sua vivência e experiência do dia-a-dia. Não tão notados encontram-se crimes económicos mais pequenos, como é o caso de burla a título individual e não a título organizacional. Sendo assim, este estudo pretende abordar a temática das burlas tendo como principal alvo os seus ofensores. Pretende-se aprofundar o conhecimento relativamente aos mesmos, procurando criar uma tipologia que os possa diferenciar e caraterizar. Este estudo revelou a existência de uma tipologia ao nível do “modus operandi” destes ofensores, dando origem aos ofensores designados por ofensores oportunistas e ofensores predadores, conforme as suas caraterísticas representativas. Tornou possível ainda uma comparação entre os diferentes estudos e informações empíricas já existentes relativamente à grande Criminalidade Económica, procedendo-se a conclusões que distanciam e aproximam os ofensores cujas vítimas são na maioria indivíduos e ofensores cujas vítimas são na sua maioria corporações e organizações. Este estudo procurou ainda tentar relacionar algumas caraterísticas pessoais relativamente ao seu meio social, com caraterísticas encontradas em ofensores de Crimes de Colarinho Branco.
The economic crimes, many times referred as White Collar Crimes, develop a major role in the actual social concept. A social evolution through consumerism has been noted leading individuals to embrace profit and personal wealth as a priority. Nevertheless few attention has been drawn to smaller types of economics crimes like low profile scams. This study intents to increase knowledge about the offenders responsible for this type of crime. It also thrives to feature the common main characteristics and differences between these types of offenders through the development of a typology. It has been shown in this paper that the offenders can be grouped according to their modus operandi which led to the upbringing of the concept related to two types of offenders: the opportunistic offender and the predator offender. This study also enabled a comparison between the information acquired from the literature and the data acquired from this investigation. Thus it was possible to relate some of the personal characteristics of the offenders responsible for scams with the characteristics of the White Collar Crime offenders.
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Keyser, John G. "Economic performance and corporate structure: an analysis of corporate crime causation." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94508.
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The objective of this study was to assess the affect of economic performance, relative performance and corporate structure on the frequency of corporate crime. The data utilized in this study were obtained from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and were originally collected by Marshall Clinard and Peter Yeager (1979). In addition to this data source, disaggregated economic data were collected in order to assess the volatility of economic performance for the corporations in the study. The collected data were then merged with the existing data set using the corporate identification numbers provided with an agreement of anonymity.
Pearsons's r was used to assess the zero-order relationships among all the variables in the analysis. A series of T-tests were also performed to examine whether offending corporations had significantly lower economic performance measures than did their non-offending counterparts. Finally, multiple regression techniques were utilized to assess the predictive capability of economic performance and corporate structure on corporate offending.
The bivariate analysis showed little correlation among the economic performance variables and the total and total serious violation categories. Concentration and diversification were significantly correlated with the violation categories. Diversification was also found to be highly correlated in a negative direction with all of the volatility measures. Similar results were found when analyzing the relative performance measures.
When comparing the mean economic scores of offending and non-offending corporations, mean performance was generally lower among offending corporations. Offending corporations, however, were shown to experience less economic volatility than their non-offending counterparts. With respect to relative performance, offending corporations were found to have lower mean economic performance measures than non-offending firms. However, offenders were found to be less volatile relative to their industry than non-offenders.
The regression analysis revealed a positive relationship with the trend of profit and a negative relationship with volatility of profit, both contradict theoretical expectations. In addition, the structural variables were found to be positively related to corporate violations, but they had little mediational effect with respect to the economic variables, as hypothesized.
Based on the findings of this study, the limitations and implication for an economic explanation of corporate offending are discussed.M.S.
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Meiring, Heinrich. "Unethical decision making : towards understanding the factors that influence a white collar criminal’s decision to commit a crime." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76044.
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Although the fraud triangle has been used to study the factors that influence a person to commit a white collar crime, it has not fully explained how the decision is made. Ethical Decision Making (EDM) is an attempt at explaining the decision more comprehensively; however, has not been studied in the context of white collar crime. The development of an Integrated EDM (I-EDM) model has presented an opportunity to study the decision making process in white collar crime with a new theoretical lens. In an explorative study, we conducted 17 qualitative interviews with persons convicted of white collar crimes and, at the time of the study, incarcerated whilst they served out their sentences. We found that interviewees, once the first relatively small act was committed, found themselves in a slippery slope of repeated acts, increasing in frequency and quantum. We also found that interviewees tended to have an external locus of moral control and took little ownership of, and interest in, EDM. Lastly, we found that interviewees relied heavily on their own subjective states in making their decisions. Our contribution was to show that the I-EDM model is able to explicate a greater variety of the themes emergent from the data than the fraud triangle. We created fertile ground for future research in EDM in the context of white collar crime, particularly with regards to the learning, issue intensity, emotional, moral character development, moral ownership and moral self-efficacy elements.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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Speziale, Nino. "Criminalità, deterrenza criminale e determinanti economiche. Analisi empirica." Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/226.
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2009 - 2010La tesi, dopo un capitolo dedicato alle teorie sulla criminalità nelle scienze sociali e sui modelli economici del crimine sviluppati dalla letteratura, presenta tre analisi empiriche che studiano le determinanti criminali in Europa e nel mondo su dati nazionali e in Italia a livello regionale. L’analisi europea esamina la relazione fra criminalità, deterrenza criminale e le opportunità del mercato del lavoro nelle 27 nazioni appartenenti all’Unione Europea per il periodo 2000-2007 su dati Eurostat. Il tasso di disoccupazione viene analizzato seguendo anche una classificazione ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) per studiare il contributo fornito dall’educazione del soggetto disoccupato nella formazione del comportamento criminale. Viene implementato un modello dinamico usando uno stimatore system GMM per controllare l’endogeneità delle determinanti criminali, la presenza degli effetti specifici nazionali non osservabili e l’errore sistematico di misurazione delle statistiche criminali. Successivamente, nell’analisi mondiale, si estende il lavoro a 50 nazioni, considerando il periodo 2003-2007 su dati UNESCO. Si investiga sulla relazione fra i crimini più violenti, il tasso di omicidi, e il fattore educativo, cioè l’impatto della popolazione con bassa e alta istruzione. Al modello dinamico viene applicato lo stimatore BC (Bias Correction) per risolvere le problematiche derivanti dalla presenza di un panel non bilanciato. Infine, l’analisi sulle regioni italiane si concentra sugli effetti della deterrenza criminale, l’impatto del mercato del lavoro e dell’abbandono scolastico su diversi tassi di criminalità. Si studia inoltre l’esistenza dei “white collar crimes” con l’uso della percentuale degli impiegati nella Pubblica Amministrazione come variabile esplicativa. La metodologia econometrica impiegata è il system GMM applicato ad una specificazione dinamica, per il periodo 1995-2004 su dati Istat. I risultati ottenuti sono in linea con quanto predetto dai modelli economici sul crimine, in più offrono diversi contributi alla materia. Nell’analisi europea i risultati mostrano, oltre all’efficacia delle politiche di deterrenza, la relazione positiva fra disoccupazione e i diversi tassi di criminalità, relazione che decresce all’aumentare del livello di istruzione ISCED nell’individuo disoccupato. L’unica relazione negativa si verifica nei furti con scasso nelle abitazioni, infatti durante i periodi di alta disoccupazione, gli individui spendono più tempo a casa, acquistando il ruolo di guardiani dei propri beni. Nell’analisi mondiale, le proxy sull’educazione catturano l’effetto civilizzazione, all’aumentare degli individui più acculturati diminuisce il fenomeno criminale. Nell’analisi italiana, la disoccupazione e l’abbandono scolastico sono positivamente correlati con i tassi criminali, mentre la relazione con i salari dipende, come nel caso europeo, dal crimine analizzato. Infine si osserva un effetto “white collar crime”. [a cura dell'autore]
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Koller, Cynthia. "Diffusion of Innovation and Fraud in the Subprime Mortgage Market." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282050951.
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Longino, Chris. "Organized Crime in Insurance Fraud: An Empirical Analysis of Staged Automobile Accident Rings." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5731.
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The growing trend of insurance fraud continues to cost US consumers billions of dollars a year through increased premiums. In 2015, the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud estimated the cost of insurance fraud as being at least $80 billion dollars a year. Even though an increasing number of criminals are drawn to the low risk, high reward of insurance fraud, little criminological literature has explored this topic and the public remains relatively unaware of the extent of the problem.
One alarming aspect of insurance fraud is the involvement of organized criminal groups. These organized criminal enterprises are formed for the sole purpose of defrauding the insurance industry. Often, these enterprises are believed to have ties to traditional organized criminal groups, such as the Italian Mafia or the Russian Mob. In order to combat these criminal organizations, it is important to understand the behavior and motivation of such groups.
The present study aims to analyze the generally held belief throughout the insurance industry that organized insurance fraud rings are more likely to operate in states with mandatory Personal Injury Protection (PIP) policies. This analysis was conducted by examining staged automobile accidents reported to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The results of this analysis were mixed. Although a larger percentage of states with mandatory PIP displayed higher staged accident rate, some mandatory PIP states did not, and multiple non-PIP states also demonstrated a high staged accident rate. In an attempt to better understand this crime, further criminological research is needed.
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Sullivan, Brandon A. "Scandal and Reform: An Examination of Societal Responses to Major Financial and Corporate Crime." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277141954.
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Jancevska, Silvana. "Ekonomisk brottslighet inom verksamheter." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25240.
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Detta examensarbete handlar om ekonomisk brottslighet inom verksamheter med fokus på gärningsmannen. Det har identifierats psykologiska och sociologiska faktorer och studien besvarar även vilka förutsättningar som krävs för att ekobrottslingen ska kunna begå brottet. Den typiska ekobrottslingen har identifierats att vara en vit medelåldersman med hög socioekonomisk status. För att ekonomisk brottslighet inom verksamheter ska kunna begås krävs det att möjligheten föreligger för gärningsmannen vilket oftast uppstår genom en anställning inom en organisation. Examensarbetet behandlar även preventiva insatser som används inom verksamheter för att stoppa ekonomisk brottslighet.This degree project in criminology is about occupational and corporate crime with focus on the perpetrator. Psychological and sociological factors has been recognized and also the conditions that are required for the crime to occur. The typical perpetrator for this kind of crime has been identified to be a white middle aged man with high socioeconomic status. It obliges an opportunity for the offender to commit an economical crime which arises through employment in an organisation. The essay also process the crime prevention that is applied in businesses to stop white collar crime.
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Michel, Cedric. "Public Knowledge and Sentiments about Elite Deviance." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5075.
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A growing body of research has revealed that the financial cost and physical harmfulness of elite deviance overshadow the impact of street crime on society (Knowlton et al., 2011; Landrigan et al., 2002; Leigh, 2011; Lynch & Michalowski, 2006; Herbert & Landrigan, 2000; Rebovich & Jiandani, 2000; Reiman & Leighton, 2010). However, despite such discrepancies, crimes of the poor continue to outshine white-collar offenses in the news media (Barak, 1994; Barlow & Barlow, 2010; Ericson et al., 1991; Lynch & Michalowski, 2006; Lynch, Nalla & Miller, 1989; Lynch, Stretesky & Hammond, 2000), the criminal justice system (Calavita, Tillman, & Pontell, 1997; Maddan et al., 2011; Payne, Dabney, & Ekhomu, 2011; Tillman & Pontell, 1992) and even academia (Lynch, McGurrin & Fenwick, 2004; McGurrin, Jarrell, Jahn & Cochrane, 2013).
Surprisingly, scholarly efforts that have investigated societal response to crimes of the powerful have limited their field of inquiry to public opinions about white-collar crime (e.g., Huff, Desilets, & Kane, 2010; Kane & Wall, 2006; Rebovich et al., 2000; Schoepfer, Carmichael & Piquero, 2007, etc.). While these studies have provided valuable empirical evidence of a growing concern among Americans regarding the danger posed by elite offenses, their failure to include a valid measure of lay knowledge about white-collar crime significantly limits our ability to infer the extent to which the public is familiar with the scope and magnitude of this social issue.
The present study seeks to address such limitation by providing the first measure of public knowledge about elite deviance. Four hundred and eight participants completed an online questionnaire that comprised measures of respondents' knowledge and sentiments (i.e., perceived seriousness and punitiveness) about white-collar crime. Results of statistical analyses revealed that participants were not sufficiently informed about elite deviance and suggest the existence of popular "myths" about white-collar crime; more specifically, a substantial number of subjects were not inclined to acknowledge hard-earned empirical evidence such as the greater physical harmfulness of elite deviance over street crime and to recognize that some elite offenses - which they admit are common in underdeveloped nations (e.g., human trafficking) - can be committed in the United States with little to no legal repercussion for the perpetrators. Further, less knowledgeable subjects and "myth" adherers (including men, those with higher income levels, more politically conservative subjects, Republicans, conservative Protestants, and those who believed that white-collar offenders see no wrong in their actions) were often more lenient in their attitudes towards elite deviance, both in terms of perceived seriousness and punitiveness, compared with street crime. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are thoroughly discussed.
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Roberts, Brandon Michael. "The Impact of Gender and Focal Concerns Theory on the Treatment of White-Collar Defendants by Federal Judges." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2875.
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Previous research found gender to be a primary consideration of judges in terms of actions towards defendants. Blameworthiness, the combined effect of criminal history, offense severity, and the defendant's role in the criminal event, is also known to impact judge's actions. Little, though, is known about how gender and blameworthiness, combined, may be related to judges' actions towards white-collar defendants. The purpose of this case study, therefore, was to explore whether defendant gender and blameworthiness impact judicial actions towards defendants charged with white-collar crime(s) in a federal district court of New York. The theoretical framework was Demuth and Steffensmeier's theory of focal concerns. Research questions focused on the impacts of defendants' gender and blameworthiness in general and with regard to bail and restitution decisions. Data consisted of published court case summaries for 1,162 criminal cases heard by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York between 2009 and 2015. These data were analyzed via an inductive coding process and then subjected to content analysis. Themes that emerged revealed that all facets of blameworthiness impacted restitution while only the seriousness of the offense impacted bail decisions. Further, gender was found to impact judge's actions in subtler ways than in prior research. For example, analysis revealed slight modifications in word choice in the case summaries that appeared to be connected to the gender of the defendant, particularly related to restitution decisions. The results of this study may be used to courts and Congress to enhance existing statutes and guidelines directed at decreasing the impact of gender and blameworthiness on defendants by the justice system.
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Heijne, Madeleine. "The Lisbon Treaty and EU Criminal law : A Feasibility Analysis For The Creation of Deterrent Legislation Against White-Collar Crime at EU Level." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-199671.
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The hypothesis of this thesis is that deterrent regulation could have had prevented or, arguably, at least minimised the myriad forms of fraudulent misrepresentation at the core of the economic crisis. Therefore, white-collar crime had, and has, a central position in causing the economic crisis and deterrent regulation will be essential in reducing the risk of a crisis of this scale infecting in our legal systems again. The background has been evaluated through the definition and origin of white-collar crime and Anglo-Irish bank has been used as a demonstrative example to illustrate this hypothesis. The EU’s competence in creating criminal law is examined, through primary law, with the aim of elucidating the boundaries that are provided in the Lisbon Treaty. Before this, however, an evaluation of the definition of criminal law is necessary to establish the relationship between criminal law and administrative sanctions. The relevant bases in the context of the EU’s competence are: article 83 TFEU, and article 325 TFEU and the EU’s outspoken goals for the Union in the Stockholm programme. Article 83 TFEU is examined as it gives the EU an explicit legal basis for the adoption of criminal directives, thereby ensuring the effective implementation of EU policies that have been subjected to harmonisation measures. Further, article 325 TFEU stipulates the EU’s priority in fighting “fraud and any other illegal activities”. Through The Proposed Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests the article is given a supranational character in creating criminal law on the area of law. The Proposed Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interest and The Proposed directive on bank recovery and resolution have been found, through their scope and legal bases, to cover what could be argued to be different essential tools in the fight against white-collar crime. The first proposed directive presents a wide range of offences and holds both natural and legal persons liable by “deterrent” legislation i.e. minimum prison sentences. The second proposed directive is presented as a tool for the prevention of the occurrence of another economic crisis utilising the means of administrative sanctions in article 114 TFEU. However, whilst not classified as a “deterrent” (in accordance with the interpretation of deterrent found in article 325 TFEU), administrative sanctions has been given the competence to have a “punitive character” and therefore a controlling function without the competence of criminal law. However, in order to prevent and deter crimes of the magnitude of those that occurred at Anglo-Irish bank, it is argued that its legislation must be made sufficiently “deterrent” by incorporating a fear of being caught, given lengthy sentences and public shaming by thorough criminal investigations, proceedings, trials, convictions and/or a criminal records.
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Palmgren, Lise-Lotte. "KILL THE INVENTOR : En konsekvensanalys av manschettbrottslighet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-75553.
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Denna studie syftar till att synliggöra olika bedrägliga beteenden som riktar sig mot innovatörer. I studien diskuteras möjligheterna till att etablera en funktion som skyddar innovatörer mot en typ av övergrepp som blir allt vanligare. Hur skall subtil manschettbrottslighet begränsas när den är både riskfri och lönsam? En vägledande fråga i diskussionen har varit: Skall innovatörer ha samma skydd för sin upphovsrätt som andra fria yrkesutövare, eller ska de fortsätta få vara villebråd utan skydd av rättsväsendet? Resultatet bygger på dokumentanalyser och en kvalitativ studie om upphovsmän till patent, samt intervjuer med personer inom branschen innovationer och entreprenörskap. Resultat baseras bl a på den kvalitativa studien och beskrivs genom fakta om innovatörerna Dr. Håkan Lans och M.D. Johan Ullman, vilka båda fått sina fall uppmärksammade i massmedia. Resultatet av analysen visar att* Uppfinnare är en minoritet som saknar rättsskydd i Sverige* Likhet inför lagen gäller inte för innovatörer och upphovsmän* Det är nästintill undantagslöst den ekonomiskt starkaste som vinner patentstrider Ett par av slutsatserna är att risken för upptäckt styr omfattningen av subtil ekobrottslighet. När det är riskfritt att bedriva sådan verksamhet ökar antalet brott. Det finns metoder att begränsa organiserad ekonomisk brottslighet, bedrägerier och kränkningar. Slutdiskussionen ger förslag till hur man kan skydda den svagare parten och skapa förutsättningar för uppfinnare att verka, för en större industriell tillväxt och därmed fler nya arbetstillfällen i Europa.
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Kennedy, Jay P. "A View from the Top: Managers’ Perspectives on the Problem of Employee Theft in Small Businesses." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406811107.
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Müllerová, Zdeňka. "Vnitřní kontrolní systém jako nástroj prevence podvodných jednání." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4686.
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The thesis describes the internal control system of a company in relation to internal audit. It also describes various types of fraudulent acts and analyzes several research papers focused on this topic. Furthermore, the thesis shows relations of these issues to white-collar crime, employment law, criminology and the psychology of offenders.
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Veras, Ryanna Pala. "Os crimes do colarinho branco na perspectiva da sociologia criminal." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/7468.
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Previous issue date: 2006-11-22This work analises, in the sociological macro level, which perspective should be applied to study white collar crimes in criminology. The sistematic study of crime has begun in the beginning of the XVIII century with the Classic School, however, it has been in the end of the XIX century that emerged the sociologycal studies of crime, influenced by the works of Durkheim. In the beginning of the XX century, sociology has turned an universitary discipline, in the University of Chicago, where has been developped the first sociologycal theory of crime, the Chicago School. Then, the sociology has been divided in two distinct levels, the micro level sociology, which studies the interaction between society and man, and the macro level, which studies the society's structure. The term white collar crime was criated by the american sociologist Edwin Sutherland, in 1939. For him, white collar crime is that one commited by respectable person from the high social class, in his business. Sutherland noted that the punishment of these crimes was less commom than the punishment of the ordinary crimes. The macro level theories which considered this question were the anomie theory, labeling approach, conflict criminology and critical criminology. The first one has analised the theme in the etiologic perspective and the others has used the perspective of social reaction. The etiologic perspective intends to find an ontologic substract in crime and reveal its causes. The perspective of social reaction considers the crime a criation of the criminal system, by the selection of actions, interpretation and a final definition in a judicial sentence. This work intends to demonstrate that the study of white collar crimes should addopt the social reaction perspective, because, it should answer in first place the question: why the white collar crimes are not absorved by the criminal system? As it's impossible to obtain some reliable sample to develop etiologic studies if the real forces that control the penal system and the society were not revealed
O trabalho analisa, na óptica da macrossociologia, qual o paradigma deve ser utilizado para se estudar os crimes do colarinho branco em criminologia. O estudo sistematizado do delito se iniciou no século XVIII com a Escola Clássica, entretanto, foi no fim do século XIX que surgiram os estudos sociológicos do delito, influenciados pelo trabalho de Durkheim. No início do século XX a sociologia se tornou disciplina universitária, na Universidade de Chicago, dando origem à primeira teoria sociológica do delito, a chamada Escola de Chicago. Então, a sociologia passou a se desenvolver em duas linhas distintas, a microssociologia, que estuda a interação entre a sociedade e o indivíduo e a macrossociologia, que se detém no estudo da sociedade. Crimes do colarinho branco foi um termo criado pelo sociólogo norte-americano Edwin Sutherland, em 1939. Para ele crime do colarinho branco é aquele cometido por pessoa de respeito e elevada classe social, no exercício de sua atividade. Suhterland percebeu que a punição de tais delitos era bem menor do que a punição dos crimes ditos comuns. As teorias macrossociológicas que abordaram os crimes do colarinho branco foram a teoria da anomia, o labeling approach, a criminologia do conflito e a criminologia crítica. A primeira o fez sob o paradigma etiológico e as demais adotaram o paradigma da reação social. O paradigma etiológico busca no delito um conteúdo ontológico e, assim, revelar suas causas. O paradigma da reação social entende que o delito é um fenômeno criado pelo sistema penal, por meio da seleção de condutas, interpretação e definição final em uma sentença. A dissertação pretende demonstrar que o estudo dos delitos do colarinho branco deve adotar o paradigma da reação social, pois deve, necessariamente, responder em primeiro lugar a pergunta: por que os crimes do colarinho branco não são absorvidos pelo sistema penal? Pois, não há como se obter qualquer amostra confiável para realizar estudos etiológicos se não forem desvendadas as verdadeiras forças que regem o sistema penal e informam a própria organização social como um todo
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Fernandes, José Ricardo. "A evasão de divisas como estratégia do crime organizado? : razões e consequências dessa criminalização." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/29573.
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A presente dissertação de mestrado tratou de analisar a prática do crime de evasão de divisas como uma possível estratégia das organizações criminosas. A análise empírica deu-se, em especial, pela leitura de acórdãos – para os quais se utilizou do programa de análise de dados sociais qualitativos NVivo8 – e ementas (espécies de resumos) do Tribunal Regional Federal da 4ª Região, pela realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com membros do Judiciário Federal e do Ministério Público Federal, e pela observação das operações especiais realizadas pela Polícia Federal, cujas informações foram complementadas pela busca de informações na internet em sítios de notícias e de instituições governamentais. A leitura das legislações trazidas no decorrer do trabalho também serviu de subsídio para as considerações finais. Passando pelas concepções primeiras a respeito do que se entenderia por crime e criminoso de colarinho branco, buscou-se fazer uma análise, considerando o âmbito brasileiro e o período de vigência da Lei n. 7.492/86, que trata dos crimes contra o Sistema Financeiro Nacional – estando, dentre eles, a evasão. Tal estudo pretendeu identificar as eventuais dissonâncias entre as características de outrora – do delito e delinquente de colarinho branco – e as atuais, apontando para a ampliação do perfil outrora traçado por Edwin H. Sutherland. No que tange às razões e consequência da criminalização de evasão de divisas, procedeu-se à análise da necessidade de proteção da sociedade por intermédio de uma norma penal. Nessa esteira, enveredou-se por questionamentos acerca das fragilidades sociais e institucionais, da integração, da impunidade e da morosidade judicial, bem como das estratégias de combate à criminalidade econômica. O exame realizado conduziu ao entendimento de que a evasão de divisas ocorre, não raramente, conjuntamente com outros delitos e com o crime organizado, podendo ser utilizada – ainda que não o tenha sido, comprovadamente – como elemento estratégico para a sustentação de organizações criminosas.The present Master‟s thesis analyzed the criminal practice of tax evasion as a strategy possibly used by criminal organizations. Empirical analysis was made mainly through the reading of sentences, for which I used the NVivo8 software (for qualitative social data analysis), and summaries (ementas) of the TRF 4ª R., through semi-structured interviews with members of the Federal Judiciary and of the Federal Public Ministry. And finally, through the observation of special operations performed by the Federal Police, of which information was complemented by data found on news and governmental institutions websites on the Internet. For the final considerations, I used as a foundation the legislation mentioned in the course of the work. Starting with initial concepts as to what people would understand as a crime and the white-collar criminal, I built an analysis that takes into account the Brazilian scope and the validity period of Act n. 7.492/86, which deals with crimes against the National Financial System – among them, evasion. Such research intends to identify any inconsistencies between the former characteristics – of delinquency and the white-collar delinquent – and the actual characteristics, pointing at the enlargement of the profile once defined by Edwin H. Sutherland. Regarding the reasons and the consequence of the tax evasion criminalization, I move forward, analyzing the necessity of protecting society through criminal regulation. In this context, I bring questions about social and institutional fragilities, of integration, impunity and judicial slowness, as well as questions about the strategies to combat economic crimes. The performed exam led to the understanding that tax evasion happens, not rarely, along with other transgressions and organized crime, and it is subject to be used, even though not proved, as a strategic element for sustaining criminal organizations.
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German, Peter Maurice. "Confiscating the proceeds of crime : the amendments to Canada's Criminal Code, their force and effect." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28825.
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This thesis examines the amendments to Canada's Criminal Code which target the proceeds of crime by, inter alia, criminalizing money laundering and enabling the confiscation of assets. The amendments represent the central thrust of Canada's contribution in a global effort to stem the traffic in illicit drugs, Canada belatedly following the lead of the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
In the thesis, I argue that the amendments go much further than earlier crime control initiatives and represent a paradigmatic shift from the traditional, single transaction, individual-oriented structure of criminal law to one which is both property-driven and premised upon multiple-transactions perpetrated by criminal organizations. The amendments focus on the proceeds of crime, as opposed to the offender, individual or corporate, their avowed purpose being to neutralize criminal organizations rather than punish offenders.
The effectiveness of the amendments is inexorably tied to the speed by which criminal proceeds can be seized or restrained and thus they operate prospectively, in anticipation of a later conviction. In order to accomplish their objectives, the amendments draw upon concepts previously the preserve of the private law of contract and tort, introducing some which are foreign to the classic norms and traditions of criminal law and sentencing, both substantive and procedural.
The thesis examines the amendments from both a textual and a Charter perspective. In so doing, considerable emphasis is accorded the presumption of innocence, a strong legitimating force in criminal law. Integral to the presumption is the Crown's burden of proof - beyond a reasonable doubt. The legislation's adoption of the civil balance of probabilities test is, therefore, considered its weakest link. Other aspects of the legislation give rise to interpretive and Charter challenges.
The thesis also discusses the need for tracing mechanisms, mandatory financial transaction reporting, the development of a strike force approach to implementation and a sharing of proceeds by law enforcement agencies. Further, the thesis decries any use of the legislation as a tool for plea bargaining or to target petty criminals.Law, Peter A. Allard School of
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Evertsson, Nubia. "Legal bribes? : An analysis of corporate donations to electoral campaigns." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kriminologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-89005.
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In this research I analyse how the existence of regulations that allow private funding of election campaigns have created opportunities for crime. Three specific questions are addressed here: 1. Do electoral donations increase political corruption? 2. Why do companies give electoral donations? 3. How are electoral donors compensated? To address these questions, I adopted a nested analysis. This sequential, mixed method brings together the strengths of both regression analysis and case study research, while conducting a validity check—triangulation—by convergence of results via different methods and theoretical approaches. I first conducted a cross-national comparison of 78 countries; then, I conducted a survey of 302 private companies in Colombia; and finally, I documented one case that described how campaign contributions affect the political decision-making process. The main conclusion of this research is that electoral law creates opportunities for crime, because it legalizes the entrance of interested money into politics, disqualifies donors as perpetrators, and introduces regulations with null or limited deterrent effect on the delivery of undue reciprocities. Indeed, I demonstrated that electoral financing is used as a legal bribery by private corporations. The legal character of this political instrument is perverted when undue compensation is delivered to donors. This is not a crime with a single perpetrator; rather, donors and incumbents are equally involved. However, donors are protected by electoral law, because the money delivered as corrupt incentive is classified as legal. This suggests that the law is being used as a mechanism that neutralizes donors as perpetrators. This perspective points to the manipulative use of electoral law, or creative compliance, as the term is used by McBarnet (2006).
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McCormick, Cameron Anthony. "Get mad, stay mad : exploring stakeholder mobilization in the instance of corporate fraud and Ponzi schemes." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Management, c2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3248.
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Using a multi-case study, three Ponzi schemes were investigated: Road2Gold, Bernie
Madoff’s empire, and the Earl Jones affair. This grounded study used an inductive
bottom-up methodology to observe and describe stakeholder mobilization in reaction to
corporate fraud. This research on stakeholder behaviour in Ponzi schemes articulates
new theory for describing stakeholder behaviour and possible determinants for successful
mobilization to action. The data presented here point to a useful distinction in the
stakeholders in a corporate fraud: reluctant and engaged stakeholders. Reluctant
stakeholders seek only interest-based ends, whereas engaged stakeholders have additional
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Reis-Roy, Calvin. "An analysis of the law and practice of securitisation." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/14405.
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The introduction, and evolution of securitisation over the years, has made a phenomenal contribution to the area of corporate finance. Securitisation is specialised area which has evolved to deliver considerable advantages to banks and their corporate and government clients, a sub-subjected explored in this thesis. Securitisation is using the cashflow, creditworthiness and collateral of receivables to raise finance from the capital markets. To date, research on the subject of securitisation has produced a few textbooks and numerous articles written by academics and practitioners. The ambit of these writings addresses three questions, namely, what is securitisation; how does it work in practice; and how can securitisation be developed so that it can continue delivering advantages in the evolving world of corporate finance. Securitisation is very much a practical subject, and given that the author had very little, if any, practical exposure to the subject prior to developing this thesis, the author, admittedly, felt challenged to ascertain significant issues that could be developed to the extent that such development represents an original contribution to knowledge. Case law in the US had already explored the most significant issue regarding securitisation, namely, true sale. Armed with a solid theoretical base of knowledge that author looked for inspiration, and discovered it during the initial days when the Enron scandal hit the headlines. In short, the Enron scandal involved using the concept of securitisation to facilitate financial crime. The masterminds (if its appropriate to use such description) of the scandal, as this thesis will unfold later, cleverly used thousands of securitisation and hedging transactions to raise funds in order to give financial creditability to a giant corporation which on the surface appeared prosperous but, in reality, was breathing to a large extent on borrowed funds. This scandal, in which securitisation was used, inspired the author to develop the originality of the thesis by focusing on the issue of securitisation and financial crime. Given that financial crime is a huge area to explore, the author narrowed the focus to look at money laundering, and address the question: can the practice of securitisation facilitate money laundering? To approach this question and answer it at doctorate level required a solid understanding of what securitisation is and how it works in practice. Using textbooks, articles and conversations with practitioners, the thesis documents under Part 1, what securitisation is and how it works in practice before moving on to Part 2 to look at if and how securitisation can facilitate money laundering.