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Explain the similarities between organized crime and legitimate business enterprises.
Identify different categories of white-collar crimes.
Describe the characteristics of organized crime groups in the United States.
Explain white-collar crimes with historic and present examples. Recognize the difficulties in using current criminological theories to explain white-collar criminals. Describe factors that influence sentencing for whitecollar criminals.
Understand the complexities in defining white-collar crimes. 1st pass Pages
Identify societal impacts of white-collar crimes.
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Modern crime, like modern business, is tending toward centralization, organization, and commercialization. Ours is a business nation. Our criminals apply business methods. The men and women of evil have formed trusts.
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Organized Crime Sleeps with the Phishes
Two alleged Mafia members in the Gambino crime family pled guilty to charges that they used the Internet to defraud customers out of more than $650 million. They also used telephones to attract victims by making offers of free