What Arguments Can Be Made for and Against the Concept

question 38

Essay

What arguments can be made for and against the concept of crimes of globalization? How do crimes of globalization intersect with and differ from other major forms of white collar crime? Is the Pak Moon dam story about a crime of globalization or something else? Is the World Bank, in your view, in any sense a party to criminal activity?

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Definitions:

Mound-Shaped

A description of a graph of a dataset that has a symmetrical bell-shaped appearance, reflecting a normal distribution.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree of variability or spread within a dataset, reflecting the extent to which the data points diverge from the average value.

Variance

An index of variability in a set of data, established by taking the average squared deviation from the mean.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that states for any real numbers k > 1, at least (1-1/k^2) of the data values fall within k standard deviations of the mean for any distribution.