Essay (Pro Lex only)
Paper: White-Collar Crime
For this assignment, we will focus on the various tools and techniques available to the security professional in order to mitigate white-collar crime.
Select two of the white-collar crimes listed below.
Discuss (a) how these crimes are committed, (b) their impacts on organizations, and (c) the tools a security professional has available to reduce opportunities for such crimes to occur.
Then, locate an example of one of your two white-collar crimes. Please make sure it is current, that is, within the past 2 years. Analyze the crime and how it was discovered, then discuss possible measures that could have deterred those found guilty.
For this assignment, you are required to prepare a report of three to five pages (excluding title page and reference page), and post it in the respective Dropbox for this week. 3-5 means at least 3 FULL pages (plus title page and reference page) but not more than 5 pages (plus title page and reference page).
Remember to include at least two authoritative references. They must be cited within the paper as well as listed on a reference page. See the APA citation tutorial in the Course Syllabus.
Grading Rubric for Assignment
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Points |
Grade |
Comments |
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Quality of answers on the two focus areas |
100 |
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Correctly APA-formatted and placed in-text citations |
10 |
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Correctly produced References page with APA formatting |
10 |
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At least two authoritative reference sources used |
10 |
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Length (3–5 pages of text, separate title page, and separate references page) and appearance |
10 |
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Grammar |
10 |
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Total |
150 |
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