White-Collar Crime Reconsidered

by Schlegel, Kip; Weisburd, David

• ISBN13: 9781555531997
• ISBN10: 1555531997
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-16
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

Divided into four sections, the volume deals with the definition and theory of white-collar crime, victimization, enforcement, and the sanctioning of organizations and individuals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: White-Collar Crime: The Parallax View	p. 3
Definition and Theory
White-Collar Crime: What Is It?	p. 31
The Theory of White-Collar Crime: From Sutherland to the 1990s	p. 53
Poverty, Power, and White-Collar Crime: Sutherland and the Paradoxes of Criminological Theory	p. 78
The Problem of White-Collar Crime Motivation	p. 108
The Macro-Micro Connection in White-Collar Crime Theory	p. 124
Victimization
Reporting Consumer and Major Fraud: A Survey of Complainants	p. 149
White-Collar Crime Victimization	p. 169
Enforcement
Bilking Bankers and Bad Debts: White-Collar Crime and the Savings and Loan Crisis	p. 195
The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion: A Case Study of State-Corporate Crime	p. 214
Moving Backstage: Uncovering the Role of Compliance Practices in Shaping Regulatory Policy	p. 244
Community Context and the Prosecution of Corporate Crime	p. 269
Sanctioning
Corporate-Crime Deterrence and Corporate-Control Policies: Views from the Inside	p. 289
Corporate Criminal Liability and the Comparative Mix of Sanctions	p. 309
Procedure Rules and Information Control: Gaining Leverage over White-Collar Crime	p. 332
Conclusion: Returning to the Mainstream: Reflections on Past and Future White-Collar Crime Study	p. 352
Contributors	p. 367
Index	p. 373
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