White-Collar Criminal: The Offender in Business and the Professions

ISBN-13: 9781138540521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 448 str.

Renssalaer Lee; Gilbert Geis

Opis

In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H

Spis treści

33: Introduction; I: What is “White-Collar Crime”?; 1: The Criminaloid; 2: Criminals of the Upperworld; 3: White-Collar Criminality; II: Corporate and Business White-Collar Crime; 4: Crime of Corporations; 5: Criminological Theories of Violations of Wartime Regulations; 6: Why Businessmen Violate the Law; 7: The Heavy Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases of 1961; 8: How Ethical are Businessmen?; 9: Increasing Community Control Over Corporate Crime: a Problem in the Law of Sanctions; III: Commercial and Professional White-Collar Crime; 10: White-Collar Offenses in the Wholesale Meat Industry in Detroit; 11: White-Collar Crime and Social Structure; 12: Social Structure and Rent-Control Violations; 13: Cheating on Taxes; 14: The Criminal Violation of Financial Trust; 15: Occupational Structure and Criminal Behavior: Prescription Violations by Retail Pharmacists; 16: Ambulance Chasing: a Case Study of Deviation and Control Within the Legal Profession; IV: White-Collar Exploitation and its Victims; 17: The Merchant and the Low-Income Consumer; 18: Home Maintenance and Repair; 19: Automobiles; 20: What the Health Hucksters Are up to; 21: Van Doren as Victim: Student Reaction; 22: Public Attitudes Toward a Form of White-Collar Crime; V: White-Collar Offenses and the Legal Process; 23: Illusion or Deception: the Use of “Props” and “Mock-Ups” in Television Advertising; 24: The Defense of the White-Collar Accused; 25: Russia Shoots Its Business Crooks; 26: 101 British White-Collar Criminals; 27: A Study of Incarcerated White-Collar Offenders; VI: Controversy Regarding the Concept of White-Collar Crime; 28: Is “White-Collar Crime” Crime?; 29: Who is the Criminal?; 30: A Re-Examination of the Concept of White-Collar Crime; 31: Some Observations on the Use of Criminal Sanctions in Enforcing Economic Regulations; 32: The Use of Criminal Sanctions in the Enforcement of Economic Legislation: a Sociological View

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Renssalaer Lee