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

ISBN-13: 9780202308951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 462 str.

Gilbert Geis

Opis

In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than half a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society who are considered "normal," "affluent," and "well-adjusted." This notion of a new criminal class played havoc with the traditional theories of crime causation and directed considerable research away from the criminal at war with society to the criminal nestled snugly in society's lap. Since then, the concept of "white-collar crime" has become even more important for the understanding not only of criminal behavior but of the total social and moral structure of American society as well. White-Collar Criminal brings together, for the first time since the concept was enunciated, the major classic and contemporary writings in this rapidly expanding area of investigation. The book provides a provocative array of studies of the crimes committed on the upper echelons of American life- embezzlement, business theft, consumer fraud, antitrust violations, and many others-as well as the most significant theoretical writings on the subject. The book is both absorbing and intellectually challenging. Teachers seeking to give their students an understanding of this basic segment of criminological thought and research will find this volume a unique combination of empirical data and theoretical analysis in highly readable form.

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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