White collar ass 5

Goals:
To provide a basic understanding of crimes of international financial institutions.
To provide a basic understanding of the various types of victimization of the harms/crimes of the powerful.
Objectives:
Students will be able to identify and explain harms and crimes of international financial institutions. (discussion board)
Students will be able to identify and explain the various types of victimization. (discussion board)
Outline:
Chapter Ten: Crimes Of International Financial Institutions
Key terms

A development discourse
Criminology, crimes of international financial institutions or ‘crimes of globalization’
Summary
Chapter Eleven: Victims of Crimes of the Powerful
Direct victims
Indirect victims
Unknowing victims
Victimized in the name of what?
Summary
Tasks:
Another example of a whistle-blower becoming the victim
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Read Rothe and Kauzlarich 2016 Chapter 11;
Read Rothe and Friedrichs (2014) Crimes of Globalization (all)
Read Did drugmaker hide birth control patch risks?
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Complete the discussion board assignment for this lesson
Check your victimization by your slavery footprint
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Submit Writing Assignment 3 by Sunday at 10 pm
Food for thought as you read and suggested activities:
Why do you think the international financial institutions continue with policies and practices that have proven to be harmful to vast populations?
How do you think the voting rights of states in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund impact the loans, grantees, and practices of these institutions? Why?
Do you think these financial institutions are a betterment of the global economic situation or a hindrance? Why?
Consider why the Global North are the primary beneficiaries of the international financial institutions policies and involvements.
Research what organizations are most responsible for climate change and identify how much power they have in domestic and international affairs.
Ask friends how they would define a “victim.” Are their responses consistent with how scholars think about victimization?
Research how victims of the Enron crimes attempted to procure reparations. Was justice ultimately served to the victims?
Additional Resources:
See the film, Life and Debt by Stephanie Black http://www.lifeanddebt.org/about.html
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See the film, Bamako by Abderrahmane Sissako http://artthreat.net/2007/04/bamako-film-puts-the-world-bank-on-trial-and-wins/
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Readings: Rothe and Kauzlarich 2016 Chapter 11; Readings: Rothe and Friedrichs (2014) Crimes of Globalization (all); AND read the following article http://www.today.com/id/39306467/ns/today-today_health/t/did-drugmaker-hide-birth-control-patch-risks/#.V6xhHpgrKUk
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