Corporate and Governmental Deviance Problems of Organizational Behavior in Contemporary Society

by Ermann, M. David; Lundman, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780195135299
• ISBN10: 0195135296
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

For nearly a quarter of a century, Corporate and Governmental Deviance has offered students the most comprehensive examination of the deviant behavior of big business and big government in contemporary society. Now in its sixth edition, this popular and well-respected collection has beenthoroughly updated. It features an expanded and insightful introductory essay by the editors that illustrates the issues discussed in the text and establishes a clear framework for the sections that follow. New selections focus on college sports' crippling effect on undergraduate education; theordinary obedience of a South African police officer and apartheid torturer; and the Los Angeles police department Rampart Division scandal. Also included is new scholarship on the Ford Motor Company Pinto episode and the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. This new edition reprints classic worksfrom the scholars who first established and explored corporate and governmental deviance, featuring essays by Edward Alsworth Ross, Edwin H. Sutherland, Marshall B. Clinard, Peter C. Yeager, and James S. Coleman. It also retains selections that have captured the attention and imagination of readersof previous editions, exposing students to the very best classic and contemporary material on corporate and governmental deviance. Offering a complete description and careful analysis of the deviant actions of business organizations and governmental agencies, Corporate and Governmental Deviance,6/e, is intended for courses in sociology, criminal justice, white-collar crime, and business, as well as for courses that focus on social problems, organizations, deviance, and government. It continues to set the standard by which other books on corporate and governmental deviance are judged,providing students with an even more complete, richly detailed appreciation of how and why organizations, not just individuals, commit acts of deviance.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I OVERVIEW
Corporate and Governmental Deviance: Origins, Patterns, and Reactions	3	(54)
M. David Ermann
Richard J. Lundman
II SCHOLARLY FOUNDATIONS
Editors' Introduction	53	(4)
The Criminaloid: An Early Sociologist Examines Deviance by Powerful People and Their Organizations	57	(10)
Edward Alsworth Ross
White Collar Crime: Formulating the Concept and Providing Corporate Crime Baseline Data	67	(15)
Edwin H. Sutherland
Corporate Crime: Clarifying the Concept and Extending the Data	82	(13)
Marshall B. Clinard
Peter C. Yeager
Organizational Actors and the Irrelevance of Persons	95	(16)
James S. Coleman
III PATTERNS
Editors' Introduction	107	(4)
The Heavy Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases: Price-Fixing Techniques and Rationalizations	111	(20)
Gilbert Geis
Beer and Circus: Big-Time College Sports and the Crippling of Undergraduate Education	131	(15)
Murray Sperber
Why Should My Conscience Bother Me? Hiding Aircraft Brake Hazards	146	(21)
Kermit Vandivier
The Nazi Holocaust: Using Bureaucracies and Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Genocide	167	(22)
Raul Hilberg
Apartheid Torturer: Evil Shows Its Banal Face	189	(6)
Suzanne Daley
The My Lai Massacre: Crimes of Obedience and Sanctioned Massacres	195	(34)
Herbert C. Kelman
V. Lee Hamilton
IV REACTIONS
Editors' Introduction	225	(4)
Ten Whistleblowers: What They Did and How They Fared	229	(21)
Myron Peretz Glazer
The Los Angeles Police Department Rampart Division Scandal: Exposing Police Misconduct and Responding to It	250	(12)
The Rampart Independent Review Panel
Chained Factory Fire Exits: Media Coverage of a Corporate Crime That Killed 25 Workers	262	(15)
John P. Wright
Francis T. Cullen
Michael B. Blankenship
Pinto Madness: Flaws in the Generally Accepted Landmark Narrative	277	(29)
Matthew T. Lee
M. David Ermann
The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster: Conventional Wisdom and a Revisonist Account	306	(29)
Diane Vaughan
About the Editors	335