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Readings in White-Collar Crime

 

David Shichor, Larry Gaines, and Richard Ball

 

How do we define white-collar crime? Why do we make a distinction between embezzlement by a corporate executive and “street crimes” such as theft, drugs, and prostitution? Will a change in cultural climate affect existing definitions of white-collar crime? What do studies of white-collar crime reveal about the society in which it takes place? How does the criminal justice system address the issue of white-collar crime and deal with those who commit it? There are no easy answers to these questions. Although white-collar crime has a long history, it has received little attention because violations, violators, and victims are often unclear. The eighteen articles chosen for this collection provide the opportunity to recognize and understand white-collar crime, its impact on society, and the need to enact more effective countermeasures to deal with it.

American Youth Gangs at the Millennium

Drugs, Crime, and Justice, 2/E

 

The M eaning and Nature of Punishment

Victims and Victimization
 
 

 

$30.95 list, 385 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-191-5

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-191-7

© 2002

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“Very well-done. It includes a wide range of perspectives—critical for use in the classroom.”  — Gene Scaramella, University of Illinois-Chicago
 

“The materials on white-collar criminality in specific fields—the savings & loan industry, telemarketing, health care, the waste oil industry—are rich and boldly original and of great value in understanding the setting of white-collar crime prosecutions.”   — Robert Weisberg, Stanford University School of Law

 

Table of Contents

 

Part I. DEFINING WHITE-COLLAR CRIME

1. White-Collar Crime: What Is It? (Gilbert Geis)

2. Challenging Conventional Views of White-Collar Crime (Maria S. Boss and Barbara Crutchfield George)

3. The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of White-Collar Crime (Elizabeth Moore and Michael Mills)

4. Underworlds and Upperworlds: The Convergence of Organized and White-Collar Crime (Gary Potter and Larry Gaines)

Part II. FORMS OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME

5. White-Collar Crime and the Study of Embezzlement (Gary S. Green)

6. “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose”: Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry (Kitty Calavita and Henry N. Pontell)

7. Insider Trading: The SEC Meets Carl Karcher (Elizabeth Szockyj)

8. Telemarketing Fraud: Who Are the Tricksters and What Makes Them Trick? (Jeffrey H. Doocy, David Shichor, Dale K. Sechrest, and Gilbert Geis)

9. Computer-Related Crime (David L. Carter and Andra J. Bannister)

10. The Criminalization of Physician Violence: Social Control in Transformation? (John Liederbach, Francis T. Cullen, Jody L. Sundt, and Gilbert Geis)

11. Fraud Control in the Health Care Industry: Assessing the State of the Art (Malcolm K. Sparrow)

12. Maiming and Killing: Occupational Health Crimes (Nancy Frank)

13. Crime in the Waste Oil Industry (Alan A. Block and Thomas J. Bernard)

14. Government Breaks the Law: The Sabotaging of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (Harry Brill)

15. Organizational Crime in NASA in among Its Contractors: Using a Newspaper as a Data Source (Jurg Gerber and Eric J. Fritsch)

Part III. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND WHITE-COLLAR CRIME

16. Policing Corporate Crime: A Typology of Enforcement Styles (Nancy Frank)

17. Local Prosecutors and Corporate Crime (Michael L. Benson, Francis T. Cullen, and William J. Maakestad)

18. A Soul to Damn and a Body to Kick: Imprisoning Corporate Criminals (Leo G. Barrile)