White Collar Criminal Law Explained

By: Randall D. Eliason, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Professor Randall D. Eliason

We are surrounded by real-life stories of white-collar crime, with pharmaceutical executives going to jail for their roles in the opioid crisis, titans of Wall Street prosecuted for insider trading and securities fraud, and senior government officials charged with fraud and corruption. But although it’s widespread, a fascinating aspect of white-collar crime is just how blurry its boundaries are.

In 24 lessons, consider the characteristics of white-collar crime that set it apart from other areas of criminal law. Early lessons offer you a foundational understanding of the nature and tools of federal white-collar prosecutions, including the role of federal prosecutors, federal grand juries, subpoenas and search warrants, and the federal criminal justice system. At the heart of this series: in-depth looks at the most common white-collar offenses, including mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, money laundering, insider trading, and extortion.

Professor Eliason’s legal expertise in the area of white-collar criminal law, combined with his background as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, transforms what would be, in lesser hands, dry legal lectures into eye-opening investigations into some of the greatest crimes in US history, involving infamous figures such as financial fraudster Bernie Madoff and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

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Standing against White Collar Crime

This book was very helpful and relevant for me as I was seeking information on how to identify, seek help from the DOJ and stand against Private and Public White Collar Crimes as a victim in an underserved community in Alabama

Good stuff!

Great legal stories and information. I especially loved the interview at the end with a defense attorney and his take on the legal system.

Hard subject to listen to

First, you will need to listen to Law School for Everyone for this course to make sense.

Second, You will need a good reason to listen to this because it is dry. The teacher does a good job, but like many courses the subject matter is something you have to pay attention to. If you are expecting to listen to this while driving in thick traffic, think again. You will either miss points for the course or crash. If you are thinking of listening to this while tired, expect to miss points in the course and fall asleep.

But I will also recomend this course to anyone in corporate America who thinks their company is doing something illegal, questionable.... It draws some good lines as far as what is wrong, vs. what is unethical. And of course, not being lawyers, it will not go into enough details at times, but that is expected.

As you can see by my review, I think it was done as well as possible, but didn't enjoy the listen. End the end I pushed through.

Informative

There are a few things you should be looking for with The Great Courses: entertainment, information, and to pass the time. This handles all of those. Professor Eliason's voice is easy to follow along to and the information is structured to be easy to absorb.

Good but not great

I like all of the "The Great Courses" about the law but this one fell a little flat for me. Some of it might be because there is a lot of very basic material, esp. if you have heard the "Law School for Everyone" series or have a background in law, but even the discussion of the cases I often found myself not caring. I think it has something to do with the pacing, which is generally very slow but over without any time to reflect, or even understand too much of the context, when discussing the big cases. I don't know.

If there were a 3.5 star option that is what I could give this one. I wanted to like it more, but I didn't.