Exam 7: White-Collar Crime
What are some of the common features of white-collar crime?
Responses should include:
-These types of crime do not generally come to mind when people are thinking about crime
-They often involve people in positions of trust and respectability
-They are often investigated by specialist regulators (e.g.Australian Taxation Office, Australian Federal Police, etc.).
Identify the agencies that play a role in fighting white-collar crime and what they are responsible for.
Responses should include:
-Australian Institute of Criminology (research)
-Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (monitors financial transactions and combats money lending)
-Australian Taxation Office (tax evasion)
-Australian Federal Police (money laundering, people smuggling, computer-based crime, serious fraud against the Australian government)
-Commonwealth Ombudsman (public sector misconduct and maladministration)
-Australian Securities and Investments Commission (corporations and investment services)
-Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (business competition, fair trading, consumer protection)
-Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (financial services)
-Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (equity/discrimination)
-Safe Work Australia (workplace safety)
What is the name given to the theory behind white-collar crime where the focus in on how peoples' values within society can encourage white-collar crime?
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Discuss the issues with the gap between public concerns and regulatory action.
What are consumer and investment scams? Using examples, discuss the impact of these scams.
White-collar crime is seen to be difficult to measure as to their extent and effects.Why is this?
What are corporate crimes? Discuss the definition and give a case study example.
What have been some of the problems with prosecuting corporate crimes?
White-collar crime often crosses the boundaries between criminal and non-criminal law.Discuss.
Abuse of the victim's trust is one of the main aspects offenders rely on for consumer and investment scams.
Explain what "smart regulation" is and outline five measures associated with smart regulation
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