9. Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?. Rolling Stone

Taibbi, Matt; Starkman, Dean; Hamilton, Martha; Chittum, Ryan; Salmon, Felix

doi:10.7312/star16073-010

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“…The representational strategies—internal splitting, identity crises, the inability to clearly distinguish adversary from friend—utilized in cases of homegrown terrorism are best accounted for by the Double, a figure that blends into the crowd. Despite some claims to the contrary (e.g., Taibbi, ), the media's representational practices fall perfectly in line with official discourses concerning homegrown terrorism. An If You See Something, Say Something public service announcement posits, “terrorists and criminals work to blend in” (DHS, ).…”

Section: The Brothers Tsarnaev: the Double Motif In Media And Officiamentioning

confidence: 93%

“…He's not walking down the street with a scary beard and a red X through his face. He looks just like any other kid” (Taibbi, , para. 29).…”

Section: The Brothers Tsarnaev: the Double Motif In Media And Officiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The scary beard and red X is a reference to the image of Osama bin Laden featured on the cover of Time magazine after his death in 2011. For one journalist, the lesson “is that there are no warning signs for terrorism, that even nice, polite, sweet‐looking young kids can end up packing pressure‐cookers full of shrapnel and tossing them into crowds of strangers” (Taibbi, , para. 18).…”

Section: The Brothers Tsarnaev: the Double Motif In Media And Officiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Just the opposite, I believe [it was] supposed to frighten. It's Tsarnaev's very normalcy and niceness that is the most monstrous and terrifying thing about him” (Taibbi, , para. 21).…”

Section: Disrupting the Collective In And For War: The Function Of Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From the Other to the Double: Identity in Conflict and the Boston Marathon Bombing

Szpunar

2015

Communication, Culture & Critique

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Mediated representations of identity have long been mobilized to energize war efforts. While conflict has changed significantly in the past 70 years, thinking about the relationship between identity, media representation, and conflict continues to revolve around notions of the Other. This article develops a more nuanced theory of identity and conflict, as it manifests in the phenomenon of homegrown terrorism, through the figure of the Double. The function of identity in and for conflict is explored by situating media representations of threat in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing within theories of enmity and biopower.Ultimately, the article argues that the Double, which unsettles identity and defers its closure, is a fundamental component of the strategies and discourses of contemporary conflict.

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Section: The Brothers Tsarnaev: the Double Motif In Media And Officiamentioning

confidence: 93%

“…He's not walking down the street with a scary beard and a red X through his face. He looks just like any other kid” (Taibbi, , para. 29).…”

Section: The Brothers Tsarnaev: the Double Motif In Media And Officiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Brothers Tsarnaev: the Double Motif In Media And Officiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Just the opposite, I believe [it was] supposed to frighten. It's Tsarnaev's very normalcy and niceness that is the most monstrous and terrifying thing about him” (Taibbi, , para. 21).…”

Section: Disrupting the Collective In And For War: The Function Of Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From the Other to the Double: Identity in Conflict and the Boston Marathon Bombing

Szpunar

2015

Communication, Culture & Critique

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“…As Matt Taibbi formerly of Rolling Stone wrote at the time of Flynn's testimony before Congress, the BSEC could have placed federal agents on every corner of lower Manhattan throughout the past decade, and it might not have put a dent in the massive wave of corruption and fraud that left the economy in flames three years ago^ [26]. Actually, the FED and the SEC have always been embedded throughout Wall Street financial institutions.…”

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Alternatives to high-risk securities fraud control: proposing structural transformation in an age of financial expansionism and unsustainable global capital

Barak

2016

Crime Law Soc Change

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This article is not about controlling high-risk securities frauds through improved identification and enhanced enforcement of existing (or new) administrative, civil, and/or criminal laws. Instead, it is about demonstrating the futility of these strategies and revealing the structural necessities for developing other strategies of social control. It proceeds by locating financial global capital within the world economy as a means of familiarizing discussions of crime control with the laws of capitalist development. To advance the argument for alternative policies, it first describes the contradictory forces of free-market capitalism as well as the failures of securities law to deter Wall Street like financial frauds, and then it appraises the inefficacies and noncontrols of state-legal interventions into high-stakes financial frauds. Ultimately, within the framework of building a globally sustainable ecosystem, a number of policy prescriptions are presented. Collectively, these policies revolve around the redistributions of social, political, and economic power as a plan for avoiding future securities trading catastrophes caused primarily by the concentrations of global capital.

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Listing Standards and Fraud

Cumming

Johan

2013

Manage Decis Econ

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Statistics reporting litigated cases of fraud on an exchange-by-exchange basis are not readily available to investors. This paper introduces data from three countries with multiple exchanges operating under different listing standards, -Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States -to show litigated cases of fraud significantly vary by country, and the different exchanges within the country. Comparisons are also made to Brazil, China and Germany to assess out-of-sample inferences. The data examined suggest there are significant differences in the nature of observed fraud across exchanges within the United States; by contrast, outside the United States there appears to be a comparative lack of enforcement. The data also suggest policy implications for the ways in which fraud should ideally be reported to improve investor knowledge, market transparency and market quality.

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9. Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?. Rolling Stone

Cited by 11 publications

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From the Other to the Double: Identity in Conflict and the Boston Marathon Bombing

From the Other to the Double: Identity in Conflict and the Boston Marathon Bombing

Alternatives to high-risk securities fraud control: proposing structural transformation in an age of financial expansionism and unsustainable global capital

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