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CRJ 181J: Criminal Law
Spring 2009
Prof. Panneton
California State University, Sacramento Criminal Justice Division
CRJ 181B: WHITE COLLAR CRIME
SPRING 2009
Course: CRJ 181J-01, Solano Hall 2002
TTh Noon-1:15 pm
Office: Alpine Hall, Room 107
Office Hours: TTh 1:30-3 pm, W 2-5 pm
Phone: (916) 278-6387; (916) 996-2821
E-mail: panneton@csus.edu
Website: Accessible via the CSUS-Faculty
Websites or the Criminal Justice Division -
Faculty links.
Required Text
1. Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime In Contemporary Society, 3rd Edition, by David O.
Friedrichs
2. Current Perspectives: Readings From InfoTrac College Edition, White Collar Crime, Nicole
Piquero, 2008 (Supplement to Friedrichs Text)
Required Readings
Students will also be responsible for various outside readings that will be assigned two weeks prior
to class discussion. Additional readings may be distributed in class.
Course Description
“CRJ 181B. White Collar Crime. This course will introduce students to a variety of white collar
crime issues, including definitional complexities, the causes, frequency and impact of economic
crime, and victim and offender profiles. Governmental corruption, organizational fraud, consumer
and environmental offenses, anti-trust violations and international schemes will be covered.
Students will also become familiar with the methods used to investigate, prosecute and sentence
white collar offenders. Policy considerations will be discussed for controlling national and
international white collar crime.
Goals and Objectives
By the conclusion of this course, students will:
1. Be able to define white collar crime, distinguish it from other types of crime and be familiar with
the difficulty in measuring the occurrence of these offenses and their associated costs.
2. Understand the types of conduct constituting white collar offenses by exploring various historical
precedents.
3. Be familiar with various theories for the causes of white collar crime on both the individual and
organizational levels.
4. Analyze the complexities of investigating and prosecuting white collar offenders by examining
hypothetical fraud and corruption schemes.
5. Understand the far ranging impact of white collar crime, particularly with reference to
globalization, international monetary markets and state-corporate complicity in illegal conduct.
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6. Describe various policy and legislative initiatives for combating white collar crime and the
resulting ethical considerations flowing from the initiatives.
Course Methodology
This course will be taught in a seminar format with extensive class discussion, reliance on case
studies, outside reading and contemporary cases of white collar crime interest. Lectures may include the
use of power-point presentations and overheads. Guest speakers will provide students with practical
realities regarding the investigation and prosecution of white collar crime.
Student Evaluation
Students will be graded on the basis of their participation in classroom discussions, their written
responses to questions presented by the case studies, a mid-term, a final exam as well as maintenance of a
white collar crime journal.
A. Students will be required to prepare written responses to questions posed from two different case
studies during the semester. The typed responses must be 500 to 750 words and double spaced.
Additional research to answer the questions is encouraged, but outside sources must be properly cited.
B. Students will be required to keep a weekly journal, consisting of an article covering any aspect of
white collar crime from a newspaper or magazine. Students must also type a written reaction to the article,
approximately 250 words. The student’s reaction may address issues, concepts and principles of white
collar crime that are addressed in the course. The article selected may include stories about offenders,
crimes, prosecutions and/or sanctions. Each week, two students will be selected in the class to review their
weekly white collar journal entries. All students will be required to report on their journal entries at least
once during the semester. The journal should be maintained in a binder which contains the articles and the
student reactions for each week of class. The journal will be collected at the end of the semester for
grading purposes.
Attendance and Participation
This course will involve a great deal of class discussion. As such, attendance and participation in
class will represent a portion of your grade. I expect all students to be prepared to discuss each assigned
reading prior to class.
Grades
1. Class Participation
2. Mid-Term Exam
3. Final Exam
4. White Collar Crime Journal
5. Case Studies Assignments (2)
15%
20%
20%
25%
20%
Total: 100%
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Grading Scale
A: 93-100% of total points
A-: 90-92%
B+: 87-89%
B: 83-86%
B-: 80-82%
C+: 77-79%
C: 73-76%
C-: 70-72%
D+: 67-69%
D: 63-66%
D-: 60-62%
Exams
There will be two exams. The types of questions may include multiple-choice, short answer, and
essay in any combination. Exam questions may be drawn from all sources, including the required text,
lectures, class handouts, class discussions, and required court opinions.
There will be NO make-up exams except for extraordinary and documented reasons.
Exams will be on the following dates:
(1) Exam No. 1: March 19, 2009
(2) Exam No. 2: Week of May 16, 2009 (exact time to be announced)
Disability Accommodation
If you have a disability and require accommodation, you need to provide disability documentation
to SSWD, Lassen Hall, Room 1008, telephone (916) 278-6955. Please discuss your accommodation needs
with me after class or during my office hours early in the semester.
Academic Dishonesty
If you engage in any form of academic dishonesty, including but not limited to, copying,
plagiarism, cheating, or any other form of misrepresentation, you will receive zero points for that
assignment and other sanctions as deemed appropriate by the professor, including but not limited to,
deduction of points from the final course grade or a grade of F in the course.
GRADING RUBRIC FOR ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAMS
Content/Analysis: 80% of the total score
Organization/Grammar/Spelling: 20% of the total score
A - Excellent Answer:
• Accurately addresses the question.
• Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the issues.
• Incorporates all applicable case law and legal principles in the discussion.
• Demonstrates coherent organization.
• Contains no grammatical or spelling errors.
B - Strong Answer:
• Accurately addresses the question.
• Demonstrates a good understanding of the issues.
• Incorporates some of the applicable case law and legal principles in the discussion.
• Demonstrates coherent organization.
• Contains minimal grammatical or spelling errors.
C - Adequate Answer
• Adequately addresses the question.
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• Demonstrates an adequate understanding of the issues.
• Incorporates several of the applicable case law and legal principles in the discussion.
• Demonstrates coherent organization.
• Contains several grammatical or spelling errors.
D- Seriously Flawed Answer
• Partially addresses the question.
• Demonstrates a superficial understanding of the issues.
• Incorporates few of the applicable case law and legal principles in the discussion.
• Lacks organization.
• Contains several grammatical or spelling errors.
F- Fundamentally Flawed Answer
• Fails to address the question.
• Demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the issues.
• Fails to incorporate any of the applicable case law and legal principles in the discussion.
• Lacks organization.
• Contains many grammatical or spelling errors.
The grading rubric assumes that your writing on the exams is legible. Please make sure that your writing
is indeed legible.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Dates Text Pages And Reading
Assignments
Topics
Week of 1/27/09 Friedrich Chapter 1, Pp 1-
31
Introduction to White Collar Crime (WCC),
defining and comparing WCC offenses, offenders,
how WCC is exposed, reported in the media, public
perception of WCC
Week of 2/3/09 Friedrich Chapter 2, Pp
32 - 55
Studying WCC, research methods, assessing WCC
costs, impact on individual victims as well as
organizational victims, WCC Internet resources
Week of 2/10/09 Friedrich Chapter 3, Pp
57 - 88
Case Study on Unsafe
Food: Chinese imports
(consumeraffairs.com/
news04/2007/04/pet_food
recall33.html)
Corporate crime, including consumer victimization,
economic exploitation, organizational abuse of
power and fraud, self-dealing, unsafe products and
environmental violations
Week of 2/17/09 Friedrich Chapter 4, Pp
89 - 115
2007 Annual Report on
Medicaid Fraud (New
York Attorney General
website: Media Center,
Occupational crime by doctors, lawyers, clergy,
small business and retail crime, crime by union
members, tax evasion
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2008, April, attachment
to April 30th, 2008,
announcement of Annual
Report re: Medicaid fraud
- 33 pp)
Week of 2/24/09 Friedrich Chapter 5, Pp
116 - 143
Article on Judicial
Corruption (“No More
Greylords”, Richard
Lindberg, at
ipsn.org/greylord, and
“Judiciary Report - Judge
Thomas J. Maloney” at
judiciaryreport.com/judge
_thomas_j_maloney)
Governmental crime, including political corruption,
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, police
corruption and governmental civil rights violations
Week of 3/3/09 Friedrich Chapter 6, Pp
144 - 167
Answers to Case Study
No. 1 Due
Article: “The Genesis of
the BCCI Scandal” by
Nikos Passas, Journal of
Law & Society, Vol. 23
#1, March 1996
Crimes of globalization, including sweatshops,
international monetary networks, banking and
investment frauds and the role of the state in
ratifying WCC
Week of 3/10/09 Friedrich Chapter 7, Pp
168 - 190
Articles: “Corporations,
Organized Crime and the
Disposal of Hazardous
Waste” by Andrew Szasz,
Criminology Vol. 24,
1986, No. 1, pp 1-24, and
“Corporate Profile: Waste
Management Incorporated”
at
movementtech.org
Relationship of organized crime to WCC,
technocrime including identity theft and computer
crime, fraudulent business organizations
Week of 3/17/09 Review and Mid-Term
Week of 3/24/09 Friedrich Chapter 8, Pp
191 - 217
Explaining WCC criminality, organizational
criminality, a review of general theories of crime
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Case Study: “Risky
Business Revisited:
White Collar Crime and
the Orange County
Bankruptcy” in Current
Perspectives, pp 77-96
and WCC theories, capitalism and WCC
Week of 4/7/09 Friedrich Chapter 9, Pp
218 - 241
Article: “Fire in Hamlet:
A Case Study of a State-
Corporate Crime” by
Judy Root Aulette &
Raymond Michalowski,
1993 - 6 pp
Historical origins of WCC laws, contemporary
legislative lawmaking including anti-trust, RICO,
OSHA and corporate criminal liability
Week of 4/14/09 Friedrich Chapter 10, Pp
242 - 268
Article: “The Limits of
Coercion and the Case of
I-Gaming Self-
Regulation” by Martin D.
Owens, Jr., at Gaming
Law Review &
Economics, Vol. 12, #2,
2008, pp 93-100, at
libertonline.com
Answers to Case Study
No. 2 Due
Law enforcement responses to WCC, regulatory
responses, self-regulation, associations with a role
in controlling WCC, role of attorneys and
accountants
Week of 4/21/09 Friedrich Chapter 11, Pp
269 - 295
Article: “Parallel
Proceedings: The
Government’s Double-
Team Approach And the
Degradtion of
Constitutional
Protections” by Christian
Babich, at lclark.edu
Prosecuting, defending and sentencing WCC, Grand
Jury, civil suits as parallel proceedings, plea
bargaining
Week of 4/28/09 Hypothetical case
scenario - to be
announced
Analysis of appropriate investigative, prosecutorial
and sentencing steps to be taken for a corporate
crime
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Article: “Prison Time,
Fines and Federal White
Collar Criminals: The
Anatomy of a Racial
Disparity” by
Schanzenbach & Yaeger,
in Current Perspectives,
pp 249-279
Week of 5/5/09 Friedrich Chapter 12, Pp
296 - 318
WCC Journals Due
Responding to WCC through appropriate sanctions,
including incarceration, fines, restitution,
disbarment, legislative and policy considerations
Week of 5/12/09 Hypothetical case
scenario - to be
announced
Analysis and discussion of various remedial
responses in a WCC case involving a multi-national
corporation engaged in fraud, review for Final
Exam
Week of 5/16/09 Final Exam
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