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| Preface | |
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| The Nature of Elite Deviance | |
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| Scandal-Plagued America | |
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| The Bailout Rackets | |
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| Scandals Within the Economic Sphere | |
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| A Theory of Elite Deviance | |
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| The U.S. Social Structure: The Power Elite | |
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| Economy-State Linkages and the Functions of Government | |
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| Benefits That Elites Seek from the State | |
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| The Higher Immorality and Links Between | |
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| Various Kinds of Crime | |
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| The Classification of Elite Deviance | |
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| Acts of Economic Domination | |
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| Crimes of Government and Governmental Control | |
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| Elite Deviance as a Denial of Basic Human Rights | |
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| Conditions Leading to Elite Deviance | |
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| Consequences of Elite Deviance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 1.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Elite Deviance and the Higher Immorality | |
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| The Nature of the Higher Immorality | |
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| Case Study: Inequality of Wealth, Income, and Power in America | |
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| The Wealth Distribution | |
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| The Relationship Between Wealth and Power | |
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| Income and Power | |
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| The Higher Immorality and the Political Economy | |
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| Corporate Compensation: Salaries, Taxes, and Perks | |
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| Welfare for the Well-Off: Tax Breaks | |
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| The Asset-Depletion Range | |
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| Taxes and Multinational Corporations | |
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| Misappropriated Charity: Foundations | |
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| The Creation of Crisis | |
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| Antitrust Laws | |
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| The Higher Immorality and Corporate Crime | |
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| Penalties: The Double Standard | |
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| Public Awareness | |
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| Organized Crime and the Business Elite | |
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| Organized Crime and Repression | |
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| Organized Crime and Profits | |
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| Organized Crime and the Political Elite | |
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| The Vatican Bank Scandal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 2.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Corporate Deviance: Monopoly, Manipulation, and Fraud | |
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| Costs of Corporate Crime | |
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| Penalties for Corporate Crime | |
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| Monopolies | |
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| The Corporate Frankenstein | |
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| Price-Fixing | |
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| Case Study: The Electrical Conspiracy | |
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| Price Gouging | |
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| Taking Advantage of the Disadvantaged | |
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| Taking Advantage of Unusual Events | |
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| Making Extraordinary Profits Through Deception | |
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| Deceptive Advertising | |
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| Fraud | |
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| Case Study: The Madoff Scandal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 3.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Corporate Deviance: Human Jeopardy | |
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| Individual Jeopardy | |
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| Unsafe Products | |
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| Food Pollution | |
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| The Tobacco Industry | |
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| Dangerous Working Conditions | |
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| Collective Jeopardy | |
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| Wasting Resources | |
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| Polluting the Environment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 4.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| National Defense, Multinational Corporations, and Human Rights | |
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| The Military-Industrial Complex | |
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| The Defense Establishment and Its Origins | |
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| Consequences of Defense Policies | |
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| The New Global Economy | |
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| Deviance and Multinational Corporations | |
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| Government Policy | |
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| Dumping Toxic Waste | |
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| Human Rights, Multinationals, and U.S. Foreign Policy | |
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| Iran | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Chile | |
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| Assessing U.S. Support | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 5.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Political Corruption: Continuity and Change | |
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| Money and Politics | |
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| Purchasing Goods and Services | |
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| Public Funds | |
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| Public Property | |
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| Regulation of Commercial Activities | |
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| Zoning and Land Use | |
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| The Legislative Process | |
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| Election Fraud | |
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| Unfair Campaign Conduct | |
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| Scandal-Plagued America: The Bush Years as Metaphor | |
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| Continuing Corruption | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 6.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Political Deviance | |
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| The Corrupting Environment of Politics | |
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| Domestic Political Deviance | |
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| Secrecy, Lying, and Deception | |
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| Abuse of Power by Government Agencies | |
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| Political Prisoners | |
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| Official Violence | |
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| International Crimes | |
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| U.S. Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of Other Nations | |
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| War Crimes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 7.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Understanding Elite Deviance | |
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| Why Elite Deviance? | |
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| Elite Deviance and the Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Analysis | |
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| Elite Deviance and American Values: The American Dream | |
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| Social Structure: The Dominance of Elite Institutions | |
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| Characteristics of Bureaucratic Structures | |
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| Centralization of Authority | |
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| Specialized Vocabularies and deologies | |
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| Fragmentation and Routinization | |
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| Image Construction and Inauthenticity | |
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| Front Activities | |
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| Elite Deviance and "Individual" Characteristics | |
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| Organizational Conditions and the Production of Deviant Personalities | |
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| Links Between Elite Deviance and Nonelite Deviance | |
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| Tangible Links | |
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| Symbolic Links | |
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| Elite Deviance and Victimization | |
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| Constructionist and Objectivist Positions on Elite Deviance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 8.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Scandalization of America | |
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| The Higher Immorality in an Era of Greed | |
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| Watergate | |
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| Iran-Contra | |
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| Early Involvement with Iran | |
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| Diverting Funds to the Contras | |
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| The Scandal: Contragate | |
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| The Nugan-Hand Bank Affair | |
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| The Iran-Contra Conspiracy: "Operation Polecat" | |
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| Connections and Conspiracies | |
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| Contragate and the Changing Nature of American Power and Corruption | |
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| Characteristics of Contemporary Scandal | |
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| The Study of Elite Deviance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Thinking Exercise 9.1 | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Epilogue: Economic Democracy | |
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| A Proposal to Transform Society | |
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| The Real Secret Government | |
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| America's Main Drift | |
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| The Local Community and Social Change | |
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| Foreign Policy and Population Crisis | |
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| Why Change Must Come | |
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| Coda | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Sources | |
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| Publications | |
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| Books | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |