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Black market, White-collar crime, Deviant behavior, International sociology Marshall Barron Clinard (November 12, 1911 – May 30, 2010) was an American sociologist who specialized in criminology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Criminological studies spanned across his entire career, from an examination of the Black Market during World War II to much more general ...
Skinner v. State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), is a unanimous United States Supreme Court ruling [1] that held that laws permitting the compulsory sterilization of criminals are unconstitutional as it violates a person's rights given under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, specifically the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause.
William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. [1] Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics.
The Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch (CCRSB) is a service within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The CCRSB is responsible for investigating financial crime, white-collar crime, violent crime, organized crime, public corruption, violations of individual civil rights, and drug-related crime.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation's Freethought Hall in Madison, Wisconsin. The FFRF was co-founded by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor, in 1976 and was incorporated nationally on April 15, 1978, who split with Madalyn Murray O'Hair’s American Atheists, in response to O’Hair’s antisemitism.
A professor at Stetson University College of Law, Podgor was named the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor in 2011, has been quoted in The New York Times, [4] [5] The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other publications on big news stories such as Bernie Madoff and Enron.
In criminology, pyrrhic defeat theory is a way of looking at criminal justice policy. It suggests that the criminal justice system's intentions are the very opposite of common expectations; it functions the way it does in order to create a specific image of crime: one in which it is actually a threat from the poor.
The Color of Crime has been widely cited since its publication and has been described as a pivotal book. [8] NYUP states the book was "heralded as a path-breaking book". [9] An edition of the American Journal of Sociology states that Russell-Brown makes an "indispensable, intelligent, and practical contribution" to the issues of race and crime. [6]