Instruction
Each student is expected to review/evaluate a recent white-collar crime case based on its nature, damage to individuals/society, outcomes of the crime (for both offenders and victims), and impacts of this crime to society and social policies. It is recommended to google a criminal incident of your interest and try to understand it from media reports and published articles for details of the incident. You will write a persuasive paper as a white-collar professional to pursue the attention of public officials and the general public for better control of similar future incidents from what you have learned from this course. In your commentary, not only should you criticize how the incident was handled, you should provide professional opinions on how to improve the control of similar crimes in the future (which should be reasonable and workable from the readers’ perspective). You may examine the crime’s origins, social context, key organizational environment, and culture that may promote or be related to its development in the society.
The length of this paper should range from 4 to 5 pages, double spaced, APA style, with 4 or more references from scholarly sources such as journal articles, books, and/or governmental reports. Please try to consider that the reference cited in your paper is to strengthen your views/arguments, not just because the assignment requires 4 references.