Women and White Collar Crime

by Dodge, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780131725164
• ISBN10: 0131725165
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-07
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This book explores a neglected topic in criminology-women and white-collar crime. Taking a case study approach, it examines how women and crime has changed and why women have become more involved in corporate, political, and professional offenses. Fully exploring the topic, it discusses all issues including perpetrators, victims and whistle-blowers and incorporates interviews with female scholars and professionals. From insider trading to medical malpractice, it includes contemporary examples that engage the reader and promote discussion in a controversial area of study.Criminologists, anyone with an interest in criminal practices.

Author Biography

Mary Dodge is an Associate Professor with the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center. In 1997, she received her Ph.D. in criminology, law and society from the University of California, Irvine. She received her M.A. in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She currently teaches a variety of courses in the criminal justice program; including White-Collar Crime, Juvenile Justice Administration, Nature and Causes of Crime, Judicial Administration, Research Methods, Contemporary Issues in Policing, Victimless Crime, and Women & Crime.

 

Her research has appeared in The International Journal of Police Science & Management, Courts and Justice, Contemporary Issues in Criminology, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, The Prison Journal, Police Quarterly, and the Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. She is a co-editor with Gilbert Geis of Lessons of Criminology and co-author, with Geis, of Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal. She is an Associate Editor for Criminal Justice Research Reports in "Police, Law Enforcement, and Crime Prevention." Her research interests include white-collar crime, fraud in assisted reproductive technology, women in the criminal justice system, and policing.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. x
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Traditions of Masculinity	p. 1
Historical Perspectives of Female Crime	p. 2
The Rise of Feminist Criminology	p. 5
White-Collar and Female Criminality	p. 7
Early Predictions of Female Crime	p. 10
What Constitutes White-Collar Crime?	p. 13
Theoretical Explanations and Causal Connections	p. 15
Gendered Varieties of White-Collar Crime	p. 21
Yes, Virginia, There Is a World of Women and White-Collar Crime	p. 23
From Pink-Collar to White-Collar Crime: The Case of Embezzlement	p. 29
Trust and Fiduciary Relationships	p. 31
Early Empirical Work	p. 34
Pink-Collar Crime	p. 38
The Shift from Pink- to White-Collar Crime	p. 39
Case Studies in High Stakes Embezzlement	p. 40
Women of the Savings and Loan Debacle	p. 44
New Directions	p. 44
When Opportunity Knocks: Women Who Commit White-Collar Crime	p. 51
Case Studies in Corporate Crime	p. 54
Queen of Mean	p. 54
The Prisoner of Park Avenue	p. 60
The Domestic Diva	p. 63
A Growing Roster of Women	p. 69
Characterizations and Controversies	p. 72
Positions of Political Power	p. 79
State Crimes By and Against Women	p. 79
Ravensbruck	p. 79
Human Guinea Pigs	p. 80
Control of Women's Reproduction	p. 82
Political Corruption	p. 83
Case Studies in Political Corruption	p. 84
American Beauty Queen	p. 84
Mayor of Irvington	p. 87
Freeholder Davila-Colon	p. 88
School Superintendent Schrenko	p. 89
Alderman Troutman	p. 90
Senator Hanna	p. 90
Italia Federici	p. 91
Susan McDougal	p. 92
Political Shenanigans Extend Beyond Gender	p. 94
Corporate Crimes Against Women	p. 99
Corporate Crime and the Workplace	p. 102
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	p. 103
The Imperial Food Products Fire	p. 105
Corporate Crime and Reproductive Health	p. 106
Diethylstilbestrol (DES)	p. 107
Intrauterine Devices (IUDs)	p. 108
Super-Absorbent Tampons	p. 111
Beauty and the Corporate Beast	p. 113
Silicone Breast Implants	p. 113
Fen-Phen	p. 118
Prempro	p. 121
Patterns of Corporate Misconduct and Victimization	p. 121
Professional Deviance: Occupational Crimes Against and by Women	p. 129
Medical Crimes Against Women	p. 130
Case Studies in Victimization	p. 131
Fraud in Reproductive Medicine	p. 132
The Price of Beauty	p. 141
Cosmetic Surgery	p. 141
Cosmetic-Tourism Trade	p. 143
Botox Scare	p. 143
Plastic Quackery	p. 144
Professional Fraud by Women	p. 145
Medical Fraud	p. 145
Gentler and Kinder Physicians?	p. 151
Legal Fraud	p. 152
Caveat Emptor	p. 154
Detecting White-Collar Crime: Women as Whistle-Blowers	p. 160
The Intricacies of Whistle-Blowing	p. 160
Case Studies	p. 163
Sherron Watkins	p. 163
Margaret Ceconi	p. 166
Coleen Rowley	p. 167
Cynthia Cooper	p. 168
Bunnatine H. Greenhouse	p. 170
Fertility Clinic Scandal Whistle-Blowers	p. 170
Debra Krahel	p. 170
Marilyn Killane	p. 172
Carol Chatham	p. 172
Muckrakers or Moral Crusaders	p. 174
Great Expectations	p. 178
Women and the Myth of Everything Nice	p. 178
Women Who Climb to Power	p. 178
As Women Rise to the Top	p. 182
A Higher Level of Scrutiny	p. 184
The Catch-22	p. 186
Prosecution and Sentencing of White-Collar Criminals	p. 187
The Continued Victimization of Women	p. 189
Victims of Fraud	p. 189
What the Future Holds	p. 190
Circles of Women in a Variety of Roles	p. 191
Index	p. 197
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