Crimes of privilege : readings in white-collar crime /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | xiii, 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Readings in crime and punishment |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4448847 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Conceptual Issues and Skirmishes
- Introduction
- White-Collar Criminality
- Is ""White-Collar Crime"" Crime?
- Collaring the Crime, Not the Criminal: Reconsidering the Concept of White-Collar Crime
- Organizational Crime
- Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations
- 2. Victims and Costs
- Introduction
- The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of White-Collar Crime
- Personal Fraud and Its Victims
- White-Collar Crime Victimization
- Consequences of Victimization by White-Collar Crime
- Victims of Fraud: Comparing Victims of White-Collar and Violent Crime
- 3. White-Collar Criminal Opportunities
- Introduction
- ""Heads I WIn, Tails You Lose"": Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry
- From Fiddle Factors to Networks of Collusion: Charting the Waters of Small Business Crime
- Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior
- Opportunity and Crime in the Medical Profession
- Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of a State-Corporate Crime
- 4. Decision Making
- Introduction
- Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research
- A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime
- Organizational Culture and Organizational Crime
- Profits, Pressure, and Corporate Law-Breaking
- Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations
- 5. Sources and Characteristics of White-Collar Offenders
- Introduction
- Who Is the White-Collar Criminal?
- Gender and Varieties of White-Collar Crime
- Corporate Control, Crime, and Compensation: An Examination of Large Corporations
- Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior
- Characteristics and Sources of White-Collar Crime
- Competition and Motivation to White-Collar Crime
- 6. Controlling White-Collar Crime?
- Introduction
- On Theory and Action for Corporate Crime Control
- Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Problems and Constraints
- Corporate Crime and Criminal Justice System Capacity: Government Response to Financial Institution Fraud
- An Evolving Compliance Model for Tax Enforcement
- Cooperative Models and Corporate Crime: Panacea or Cop-Out?
