Invisible Crimes: Their Victims and Their Regulation

ISBN-13: 9780333741610 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 251 str.

Davies, Pamela

Opis

Invisible Crimes is an edited volume containing a collection of articles from a distinguished panel of academics. The book explores many features of 'invisible' crimes and in doing so provides numerous examples of hidden crimes and victimisations. The book will be invaluable to students of criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It will also inspire academics from a range of disciplines to update, rewrite and offer new courses on neglected crimes and victimisations.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART 1: THE NATURE OF INVISIBLE CRIMES The Features of Invisible Crimes; V.Jupp, P.Davies & P.Francis White Collar Crime: An Overview and Discussion; H.Croall Crime and Work Connections: Criminals at Work and 'Invisibility'; P.Davies & V.Jupp PART 2: TYPES OF CRIMES AND THEIR VICTIMS Health and Safety Crimes (In)visibility and the Problem of 'Knowing'; S.Tombs Cyber-crimes: New Wine, No Bottles?; D.Wall PART 3: REGULATION AND CONTROL Regulating Fraud Revisited; M.Levi Regulating the Invisible? The Case of Workplace Illicit Drugs Misuse; P.Francis & P.Wynarczyk Watching the Workers: Crime, CCTV and the Workplace; M.McCahill & C.Norris Making Visible the Invisible? Some Concluding Comments ; P.Francis, P.Davies & V.Jupp Index

O autorze

HAZELL CROALL Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Strathclyde MICHAEL LEVI Professor of Criminology, University of Wales, Cardiff MIKE McCAHILL has a degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Hull CLIVE NORRIS Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull STEVE TOMBS Reader in Organisational Sociology in the Criminal Justice Group, Liverpool John Moores University DAVID WALL Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Deputy Director, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds PETER WYNARCZYK Principal Lecturer in Economics, University of Northumbria, Newcastle