CBBS News
White Collar Crime Symposium
As white-collar crimes become more prevalent, leaders in the business anted academic arenas are taking notice. Three experts will share their insights at the White-Collar Crime Symposium to be held on March 28, 2007 from 2:30p.m. – 4:30p.m. at the Strom Thurmond Institute on the campus of Clemson University. This free event is open to the public.
Dr. D. Quinn Mills of the Harvard Business School will speak on accounting and financial fraud. Mills is the author of Buy, Lie and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble, which analyzes the accounting scandals of 2001-2003.
Dr. Stanton E. Samenow is a criminologist and psychologist in private practice as well as author of Inside the Criminal Mind. Samenow, who frequently appears on national radio and television broadcasts, will discuss criminal behavior, emphasizing the similarities between “criminals in the suites and “criminals in the streets.”
Dr. Terry Leap, professor of management at Clemson University and author of the newly released Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime, will address future issues affecting white-collar crime.