White collar Assignment | Online Assignment

Goal:

To introduce students to their own decisions that facilitate the crimes and harms as presented in the previous modules
Objectives:

Students will be able to reflect on their everyday decision-making in relation to the facilitation of the crimes and harms of the powerful.
Outline:

Chapter Fourteen: Conclusion

The Limitations of Crimes of the Powerful
The Commodification and Pacification of Crimes of the Powerful through Our Everday Lives
Summary
So Where Do We Go from Here?

Tasks:

Review this interactive map showing illegal dumping and e-waste dumping (Links to an external site.)
Read this article about slave labor and corporations (Links to an external site.)
Read this article about child labor (Links to an external site.)
Watch South Park Episode 809 South Wal-Mart This Way Comes (Links to an external site.)from this episode (Links to an external site.)
See Mattison, L. (2017). 10 of the biggest food companies basically own every grocery item you buy.
Retrieved from: https://www.wideopeneats.com/these-10-companies-basically-own-every-grocery-item-you-buy (Links to an external site.)

Read this on google and your healthcare information http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/healthcare/google-is-collecting-personal-health-data-of-millions-of-people/ar-BBWBrj7?li=BBnbfcN&ocid=iehp
Read this data collection and facebook https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
Read Rothe and Kauzlarich 2016 Chapter 14
Complete the discussion board assignment for this lesson
Submit Writing Assignment 4 by Sunday 10 pm
Food for thought and suggested activities:

From the list of corporate offenders presented earlier in this chapter, from which ones do you buy products? Would you consider boycotting the corporations after hearing about their crimes?
To what extent do you worry about your privacy when using your smart phone? Do you think the state has too much knowledge of your personal information?
Research the legal issues surrounding Walmart’s treatment of its workers. Do you think that if more people knew of its record people would force the company to change by not giving it their business?