White-Collar Crime Takes Center Stage at Clemson Symposium

March 30, 2009

CLEMSON, SC – March 30, 2009 –  White-collar crime involves criminals from the suites instead of the streets and presents a challenge for business leaders and law enforcement officials.

Harvard Business School emeritus professor D. Quinn Mills will talk about financial fraud when he headlines a discussion on white-collar crime on Wednesday, April 8, at Clemson University.

The Third Annual White-Collar Crime Symposium will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Strom Thurmond Institute, and in addition to Mills will feature Stanton E. Samenow, forensic psychologist and author of “Inside the Criminal Mind,” and Clemson management professor Terry Leap, author of “Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime.”

“A discussion on this particular type of crime is always important, perhaps even more so now that so many businesses and institutions are in dire straits,” said Leap, a symposium coordinator. (Related video: Leap talks about white-collar crime.)

This free event is open to the public and is sponsored by the College of Business and Behavioral Science and the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson.