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Assume you are the chief investigator. What tasks would assign to firefighters and police officers in an investigation and why?
Discuss the financial impact of white collar crimes. What can be done to refocus more on white collar crimes?
Describe how your selected theories explain specific crimes. Explain the policy implications of these theories.
Is the victim selection process different between team serial killers and those who work alone?
How is the face of organized crime changing? What similarities can be drawn between the organized crime of the previous and current centuries?
The (true) story of Henry Hill provides a good example to illustrate the typologies of organized crime, criminals, and organizations.
Would you characterize the crimes as white-collar crime or organized crime? Why?
Provide a definition of morality and ethics. How could this dilemma have occurred in a "good society"?
Discuss the concept of Civil Disobedience and how it is different from chronic law-breaking.
Consider the categories of crime that we reviewed: Provision of illicit goods, provision of illicit services, and infiltration of business, extortion.
Explain the connection between organized crime and some labor unions. (The 1987 President's Commission on Organized Crime report can be helpful here).
Using the concept of paradigms of laws and Kant's ethical formalism, write a justification report in Microsoft Word document. In your report, include:
Choose any of the eighteen transnational crimes listed above and address the following points: What is the definition of the crime you chose?
Evaluate why many police departments ignore "entitlement" and focus more on other unethical behaviors during ethics training.
Explain when and how whistle-blowing is ethical, if at all. Is it a betrayal or a public duty?
Research Barnes' history and operation, paying particular attention to the relationship between Barnes and his environment.
Create a 10 slide PowerPoint presentation of those crimes. The goal of the presentation is to be able to present it to a group of people to explain cyber-crime.
In a 2-page essay, describe how you would handle the following situation if you were one of the responding police officers.
What are the prosecutor's ethical dilemmas/responsibilities? What is more important: justice or a conviction?
The Houston case involved a "Red Carpet Inn" motel. Research and summarize the Red Carpet Inn case, and answer the following questions:
A description of how to manage ethical problems in terms of your approach, the line of action, and the issues at stake.
What role does money laundering play in organized crime? What implications does this have on law enforcement?
Explain the factors on which the rulings are based. Analyze the dissents and explain the factors on which the dissents are based.
Describe what is the purpose of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) section of the federal racketeering law.
Conduct an Internet search of cyber-crimes. Find a cyber-crime, a crime where a computer is used to commit a majority of the crime that has occurred.