White-Collar Crime Offenses in Business, Politics, and the Professions, 3rd Ed

Name: White-Collar Crime Offenses in Business, Politics, and the Professions, 3rd Ed
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ISBN: 9780029116012

ISBN-10: 0029116015

ISBN-13: 9780029116012

Edition: 3rd 1994

Authors: Gilbert Geis, Robert F. Meier, Lawrence M. Salinger

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List price: $24.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 12/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 524
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



White-Collar Criminality




Is "White-Collar Crime" Crime?




Who Is the Criminal?




Gender and Varieties of White-Collar Crime




The Consequences of White-Collar Crime




The Portrayal of Business Malfeasance in the Elite and General Media




White Collar Crime




The Heavy Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases of 1961




Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of State-Corporate Crime




Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield




"Heads I Win, Tails You Lose": Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry




Insider Trading: The SEC Meets Carl Karcher




Medicaid Fraud




Careers of Misconduct: Professional Deviance among Lawyers




The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond: Moral Boundaries and the Criminal Sanction




Transnational Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry




Emotions and Adjudication: Status Degradation among White-Collar Criminals




White-Collar Crime and Punishment: Class Structure and Legal Sanctioning of Securities Violations




Motivation and Opportunity: Understanding the Causes of White-Collar Crime




Causes of White-Collar Crime




On the Causes of "White-Collar" Crime: An Assessment of Hirschi and Gottfredson's Claims




Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research




On the Plausibility of Corporate Crime Control




A Review, Rebuttal, and Reconciliation of Cressey and Braithwaite and Fisse on Criminological Theory and Corporate Crime



Bibliography