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The Discovery of White Collar Crime | |
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Edwin H. Sutherland and the Discovery of White Collar Crime | |
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E. H. Sutherland: The "Father" of White Collar Crime Studies | |
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Defining White Collar Crime | |
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The Meaning of White Collar Crime: Some Issues under Debate | |
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A Multistage Approach to Defining White Collar Crime | |
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Trust and White Collar Crime | |
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Respectability and White Collar Crime | |
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Risk and White Collar Crime | |
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Comparing White Collar and Conventional Crime Offenders | |
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Cross-Cultural and International Dimensions of White Collar Crime | |
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Age | |
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Class | |
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Race | |
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Gender | |
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Other Demographic Variables and Differences | |
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Criminal Careers | |
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The Social Movement Against White Collar Crime | |
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Images of White Collar Crime: The Role of the Media | |
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The National White Collar Crime Center | |
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Exposing White Collar Crime | |
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Informers and Whistleblowers | |
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The Media as Entertainment: White Collar Crime in Films and on TV | |
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"Deep Throat" and the Watergate Case | |
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Muckrakers and Investigative Reporters | |
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The Internet and White Collar Crime | |
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The Consumer Movement, Public Interest Groups, and Labor Unions | |
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The Role of Politicians and Political Institutions | |
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Ralph Nader and the Consumer Movement | |
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Criminal Justice Professionals and Academics (Including Criminologists) | |
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Discovering White Collar Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Studying White Collar Crime and Assessing Its Costs | |
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Underlying Assumptions and Different Perspectives | |
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Specific challenges in the Study of White Collar Crime | |
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The Complex Nature of White Collar Crime | |
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Gaining Access for Research | |
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Obtaining Statistics | |
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Obtaining Research Support | |
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A Case Study: The Revco Medicaid Fraud Case | |
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Research Methods for Studying White Collar Crime | |
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Scholarly Research and White Collar Crime | |
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Case Studies | |
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Experiments | |
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Surveys | |
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Designing a White Collar Crime Survey: Some Challenges | |
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Observational Research | |
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Secondary Data Analysis and Event History Analysis | |
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Archival Data Analysis and Historical Ethnography | |
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Content Analysis | |
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Comparative Studies of White Collar Crime | |
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Students' Role as Researchers | |
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Public Perception of White Collar Crime: How Serious Is It? | |
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Measuring White Collar Crime: How Prevalent Is It? | |
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Conventional Crime and White Collar Crime Rates | |
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Victimization Surveys and Self-Report Studies | |
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Measuring Specific Forms of White Collar Crime | |
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The Need for Reliable Data | |
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The Costs and Consequences of White Collar Crime | |
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Direct Costs | |
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Indirect Costs | |
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Physical Costs | |
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Other Costs | |
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Victims of White Collar Crime | |
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The Role of the Victim | |
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Organizations as Victims of White Collar Crime | |
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Specific Forms of Suffering of White Collar Crime Victims | |
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Psychological Consequences of Fraud Victimization | |
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Studying White Collar Crime and Assessing its Costs, in Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Corporate Crime | |
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The Historical Development of the Corporation and Corporate Crime | |
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The Corporation in Modern Society | |
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"It's Legal But It Ain't Right" | |
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A Typology of Corporate Crime | |
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Corporate Violence | |
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Corporate Violence against the Public: Unsafe Environmental Practices | |
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The Exxon Valdez and Prince William Sound | |
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Corporate Destruction of a Community | |
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Corporate Violence against Consumers: Unsafe Products | |
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The Ford Pinto Case | |
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Corporate Violence against Workers: Unsafe Working Conditions | |
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The Production and Sale of Tobacco: Corporate Crime? | |
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Asbestos and the Manville Corporation | |
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Corporate Abuse of Power, Fraud, and Economic Exploitation | |
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The Film Recovery Systems Case | |
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Crimes against Citizens and Taxpayers: Defrauding the Government and Corporate Tax Evasion | |
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Halliburton, Vice President Cheney, and Iraq War Contracts | |
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Crimes against Consumers: Price Fixing, Price Gouging, False Advertising, and Misrepresentation of Products | |
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Crimes against Employees: Economic Exploitation, Corporate Theft, Unfair Labor Practices, and Surveillance of Employees | |
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The Enron Case and the Devastation of Employee Retirement Accounts | |
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Crimes against Franchisees and Suppliers: Discount and Chargeback Frauds | |
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Crimes against Competitors: Monopolistic Practices and Theft of Trade Secrets | |
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The Case against Microsoft | |
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Crimes against Owners and Creditors: Managerial Accounting Fraud, Self-Dealing, and Strategic Bankruptcy | |
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Adelphia, HealthSouth, WorldCom, and Accounting Fraud | |
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Are Universities and Colleges Corporate Criminals? | |
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Corporate Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Occupational Crime and Avocational Crime | |
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Crimes by Small Businesses: Retail Crime and Service Fraud | |
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Retail Crime | |
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Occupational Crime as Violence: Drug Dilution and Fake Asbestos Removal | |
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Defrauding Vulnerable People | |
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Service Business Fraud | |
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Crimes by Professionals: Medical, Legal, Academic, and Religious Crime | |
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Medical Crime | |
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Legal Crime | |
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Lawyers and the Abuse of Political Power | |
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Academic Crime: Professors, Scientists, and Students | |
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Plagiarism and Trusted Criminals | |
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Stealing from the School District | |
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Religious Crime | |
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Employee Crime | |
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Extravagant Executive Compensation: Just Reward or Grand Theft? | |
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Forms of Employee Theft | |
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Employers' Responses to Employee Theft | |
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Union Leaders Who Steal from Their Union Members | |
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Alternative Forms of Employee Crime | |
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Some Factors in Employee Theft | |
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Conditions in the Workplace and Employee Crime | |
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Donkeys, Wolfpacks, Vultures, and Hawks: A Typology of Employee Theft | |
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Avocational Crime and White Collar Crime | |
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Income Tax Evasion | |
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A Record Case of Individual Tax Evasion | |
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Other Forms of Avocational Crime | |
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Occupational and Avocational Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Governmental Crime: State Crime and Political White Collar Crime | |
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Governmental Crime: Some Basic Terms | |
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Governmental Criminality on an Epic Scale | |
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The Threat of Nuclear War as Crime-and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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The Vietnam War | |
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U.S. Military Activity in the "New World Order" | |
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Forms of State Criminality | |
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Post-9/11 Initiatives: Protecting Us against Terrorism or Perpetrating State Crimes? | |
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The Criminal State | |
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Adolf Hitler: The Greatest White Collar Criminal of the 20th Century? | |
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The Repressive State | |
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The Corrupt State | |
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Suharto and the Looting of Indonesia | |
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State Negligence | |
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State-Organized Crime | |
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The White House and State-Organized Crime | |
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State-Organized Crime and Federal Investigative Agencies | |
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Police Crime | |
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Political White Collar Crime | |
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Political System Corruption | |
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Corruption in the Electoral Financing Process | |
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The Watergate Affair | |
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Political White Collar Crime in the Executive Branch | |
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Political White Collar Crime in the Legislative Branch | |
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Political White Collar Crime in the Judicial Branch | |
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Police Corruption as a Form of "Political" White Collar Crime | |
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Governmental Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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State-Corporate Crime, Crimes of Globalization, and Finance Crime | |
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State-Corporate Crime | |
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State-Corporate Crime, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust | |
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Military Contractors in Iraq: Corporate Warriors and the Halliburton Corporation | |
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Crimes of Globalization | |
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Corruption in the Oil-for-Food Program | |
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Sweatshops in Developing Countries: Criminal Enterprises or Economic Opportunities? | |
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The Role of the World Bank in a Global Economy | |
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The World Bank and Crimes of Globalization | |
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The Dam at Pak Moon: A Case of Global Crime by Jessica Friedrichs | |
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Finance Crime | |
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Banking/Thrifts Crime: The Savings and Loan Mess | |
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Investment Banks: Wealth Producers or Large-Scale Fraudsters? | |
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The Charles Keating Case | |
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Insider Trading | |
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The BCCI Case | |
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The Corporate Takeover Controversy | |
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Insider Trading and the Martha Stewart Case | |
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Finance Crime and Financial Markets | |
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Fraudulent Conduct in the Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds Industries | |
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The Martin Frankel Case | |
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Hybrid White Collar Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Enterprise Crime, Contrepreneurial Crime, and Technocrime | |
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Enterprise Crime: Organized Crime and White Collar Crime | |
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The Relation between Governmental Crime and Syndicated Crime | |
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Historical Roots of Organized Crime | |
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The Relation between Syndicated Crime and White Collar Crime | |
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Joe Valachi of La Cosa Nostra and Carl Kotchian of Lockheed | |
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Hazardous Waste Disposal | |
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Arson as a Form of Enterprise Crime | |
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The Relation between Syndicated Crime and Finance Crime | |
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The Looting of the Thrifts and Syndicated Crime | |
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Contrepreneurial Crime: Professional Criminals and White Collar Crime | |
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Historical Origins of Professional Crime | |
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Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil and the Big Con | |
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The Relation between Professional Crime and White Collar Crime | |
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Fraudulent Businesses: Swindles, Scams, and Rackets | |
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The Fence | |
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Fraud | |
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A Contrepreneur's Advice to Potential Victims | |
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Advance Fee Frauds | |
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Charity as Fraud | |
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Pump and Dump: The Jonathan Lebed Case | |
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When Fraud Leads to Violence | |
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Technocrime, Including Computer Crime | |
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Technocrime Defined | |
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Computer Crime | |
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Identity Theft as White Collar Crime | |
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The Law and Computer Crime | |
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The Pursuit of Computer Crime Cases | |
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Other Types of Technocrime | |
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Enterprise Crime, Contrepreneurial Crime, and Technocrime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts | |
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Underlying Assumptions and Points of Departure | |
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What Do We Want to Explain? | |
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Explaining White Collar Criminality | |
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The Demonic Explanation | |
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The Biogenetic Explanation | |
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Psychological Explanations | |
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Mental Illness, Drug Addiction, and Intellectual Aptitude: Factors in White Collar Crime? | |
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Sociogenic Explanations | |
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White Collar Delinquency | |
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Organizational Criminality and the Crimes of Organizations | |
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Organizational Responsibility | |
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The Various Dimensions of Organizational Criminality | |
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Diffusion Theory and Intermediate Fraud | |
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Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Perspectives | |
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General Theories of Crime and White Collar Crime Theory | |
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Low Self-Control and White Collar Crime | |
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Classical Criminology and Rational Choice | |
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Alternative Dimensions of Crime and Choice | |
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The Moral and Sensual Attractions of White Collar Crime | |
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Social Control and Bonds | |
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Social Process and Learning | |
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Interactionism and Labeling | |
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Neutralizations, Rationalizations, and Accounts | |
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The "Presentation of Self" and White Collar Crime | |
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Structural Strain and the Structure of Opportunity | |
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Conflict Theory and Criminogenic Societies | |
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The Structure of Contemporary Capitalist Society and White Collar Crime | |
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Radical and Critical Perspectives on White Collar Crime | |
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Economic Wilding, Capitalism, and White Collar Crime | |
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White Collar Crime in a Postmodern World | |
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Explaining Criminalization and White Collar Crime | |
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Women as a Special Class of Victims of White Collar Crime | |
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Integrated Theories of White Collar Crime | |
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An Integrated, Multilevel Approach to Understanding the Enron et al. Cases | |
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Explaining White Collar Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Law and the Social Control of White Collar Crime | |
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Social Control and White Collar Crime | |
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Formal Law and White Collar Crime | |
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The Historical Origins of White Collar Crime Laws | |
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The Carrier's Case and the Law of Employee Theft | |
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Contemporary Legislative Lawmaking and White Collar Crime | |
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The Influence of Business on the Lawmaking Process | |
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The Dialectical Perspective on Lawmaking | |
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Alternative Sources and Forms of Law and Lawmaking | |
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The Constitution and Constitutional Law | |
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act | |
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Case Law | |
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Executive Lawmaking | |
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Administrative Law | |
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A Selective Review of Substantive White Collar Crime Lawmaking | |
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Antitrust Law | |
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Occupational Safety and Health Laws | |
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Environmental Protection Laws | |
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The RICO Law | |
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White Collar Crime Law and the Legal Curriculum | |
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Civil and Criminal Law and White Collar Crime | |
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Law, Corporations, and the Concept of Criminal Liability | |
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Law Professor Stuart Green and the Moral Theory of White Collar Crime | |
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Corporate Criminal Liability | |
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A Comparative Perspective on Corporate Criminal Responsibility | |
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Corporate Personhood and Corporate Decision Making | |
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The Corporate Criminal Liability Controversy | |
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Law and the Social Control of White Collar Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime | |
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Criminal Justice System Policing: Law Enforcement | |
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State and Federal Enforcement Agencies | |
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The FBI | |
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The Inspectors General | |
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The U.S. Postal Inspection Service | |
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The U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service, and U.S. Marshals Service | |
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The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigative Division | |
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The Regulatory System Response | |
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The Origins and Evolution of Regulation | |
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The Creation and Operation of Federal Regulatory Agencies | |
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The Contemporary Debate on Regulation | |
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The Regulatory Agency's Philosophy: Compliance versus Deterrence | |
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Criticisms of Regulatory Agencies | |
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Other Factors in Regulatory Response | |
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Agency Capture | |
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Prominent Regulatory Agencies and Their Functions | |
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The SEC in Recent Years | |
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Protecting the Environment: Alternatives to Relying upon the EPA | |
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Private Policing | |
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Forensic Accountants as Fraud Detectives | |
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The Role of Lawyers and Accountants in Policing White Collar Crime | |
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Lawyers and Professional Ethics | |
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Accountants and Auditing Responsibilities | |
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Self-Regulation: Internal Controls and Professional Associations | |
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The Role of Corporate Boards in Self-Regulation | |
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Self-Regulation in Financial Firms | |
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Self-Regulation and the Professions | |
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Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Prosecuting, Defending, and Adjudicating White Collar Crime | |
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Prosecution at the Local, State, and Federal Levels | |
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Local Prosecutors | |
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State Attorney Generals | |
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The Pinto Case: Prosecuting the Ford Motor Company | |
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Federal Prosecutors | |
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Wall Street | |
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The Prosecution of Antitrust Cases | |
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The Prosecution of Environmental Crime | |
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Special Prosecutors (Independent Counsel) | |
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The Role of the Grand Jury in White Collar Crime Cases | |
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"Perp Walks" for White Collar Crime Defendants | |
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Defending White Collar Criminals | |
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David Boies and White Collar Crime Cases | |
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To Testify or Not to Testify | |
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Adjudicating White Collar Crime: Plea Bargaining and Trial | |
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The Role of the Trial Jury | |
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Jurors and Punitive Damages | |
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Judges and the Sentencing of White Collar Criminals | |
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Reversal of Arthur Andersen Conviction Due to Jury Charge by Judge | |
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Sentencing | |
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Explaining Disparities in Sentences for White Collar Offenders | |
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Sentencing Organizational Offenders | |
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Sentencing Guidelines and White Collar Offenders | |
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White Collar Criminals in the Correctional System | |
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House Arrest as Punishment | |
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Civil Suits | |
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SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation | |
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William Lerach: Shareholder Hero or Economic Terrorist? | |
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Citizen Suits and Class Action Suits | |
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Collateral Civil Suits | |
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The Role of Mediators and Arbitrators in the Settlement of Complaints | |
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Prosecuting and Adjudicating White Collar Crime, In Sum | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Responding to the Challenge of White Collar Crime | |
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Raising Consciousness about White Collar Crime | |
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Policy Options for Responding to White Collar Crime | |
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Responding to White Collar Crime as a Moral Issue | |
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Do Moral Appeals Work? | |
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Business Ethics Courses in the Curriculum | |
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Business Ethics within the Business World | |
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Can a Corporation Be Ethically Transformed? The Case of Tyco | |
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Securing Compliance and Sanctioning White Collar Crime | |
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Shaming as a Response to White Collar Crime | |
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Law and the Coercive Response to White Collar Crime | |
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Civil Suits and Penalties | |
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Compliance versus Punitive Approaches to Corporate Crime | |
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Deterrence and White Collar Crime | |
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"Just Deserts" and Corporate Crime | |
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A "Chief Criminologist" for the SEC? | |
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Rehabilitation, Probation, and Enforced Self-Regulation | |
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Probation | |
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The "Devil's Advocate" and Corporate Probation | |
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Enforced Self-Regulation | |
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Fines, Restitution, and Community Service | |
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Sentencing Guidelines for Fines | |
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Restitution | |
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Community Service | |
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Occupational Disqualification | |
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Contractual Disqualification for Corporations | |
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Incarceration | |
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Organizational Reform and Corporate Dissolution | |
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Citizen Works Proposals for Cracking Down on Corporate Crime | |
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A Stakeholder Model for Corporations: Costco and Whole Foods | |
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Responding to Residual Forms of White Collar Crime | |
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Controlling Governmental Crime | |
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Responding to White Collar Crime Internationally | |
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Structural Transformation as a Response to White Collar Crime | |
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Responding to the Challenge of White Collar Crime, in Sum | |
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A Concluding Note: Trusted Criminals and White Collar Crime in the 21st Century | |
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Key Terms | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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White Collar Crime in Films | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |