White-Collar Crime: Accounts of Offending Behaviour

ISBN-13: 9780230581852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 229 str.

Janice Goldstraw-White

Opis

This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing.

Recenzje

'Her book - her achievement - is to offer evidence of what fraudsters do, and why [...] it adds up to a most useful and thought-provoking book, that I hope will be picked up (and the contents re-used!?) widely.'

- Professional Security Magazine

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Series Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH Accounting for Behaviour - Theoretical Approaches Undertaking the Research PART II: WHITE-COLLAR CRIME OFFENDERS' ACCOUNTS Outer-Legal Self and Inner-Moral Self Motivation, Opportunity and Rationality The self as a Moral Person Offenders' Afterthoughts Accounts and Gender PART III: CONCLUSION Summary Bibliography Endnotes Index

O autorze

JANICE GOLDSTRAW-WHITE is an independent scholar specializing in Criminology who runs her own management and research consultancy, Goldstraw-White Associates, UK, working with academic, private and public sector bodies. Working over 20 years as an accountant mainly in the public sector, she has particular interests in crime in the workplace, fraudster behaviour and the role of women in white-collar crime.