White-Collar Crime

Brian K. Payne - Old Dominion University, USA

Series:
SAGE Text/Reader Series in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Other Titles in:
Business & Management | Criminology & Criminal Justice | White Collar Crime

June 2013 | 720 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

White-Collar Crime: A Text/Reader, part of the text/reader series in criminology and criminal justice incorporates contemporary and classic readings (some including policy implications) accompanied by original text that provides a theoretical framework and context for students.

The comprehensive coverage of the book includes:

- crimes by workers sales oriented systems

- crimes in the health care system

- crimes by criminal justice professionals and politicians

- crimes in the educational system

- crimes in the economic and technological systems

- crimes by employees in the housing industry

- corporate crime

- environmental crime

- explanations of white-collar crime

- the police and court responses to white-collar crime

- the corrections sub-system and white-collar crime.

Features of the book include key points, in focus box inserts, discussion questions, section summaries, and photos.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

SECTION I. Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime: A Systems Perspective

How to Read a Research Article

Reading:

1. Crime and Business, by Edwin H. Sutherland

SECTION II. Understanding White-Collar Crime: Definitions, Extent, and Consequences

Readings:

2. White-Collar and Professional Crime: The Challenge for the 1980s, by Herbert Edelhertz

3. Occupational Crime, Occupational Deviance, and Workplace Crime: Sorting Out the Differences, by David O. Friedrichs

SECTION III. Crimes in Sales-Related Occupations: A Systems Perspective

Readings:

4. The Appliance Repairman: A Study of Victim-Responsiveness and Fraud, by Diane Vaughan and Giovanna Carlo

5. Employee Theft and Efficacy of Certain Control Procedures in Commercial Food Service Operations, by Richard Ghiselliand Joseph A. Ismail

SECTION IV. Crimes in the Health Care System

Readings:

6. The Enforcement of Criminal Laws: Testimony to the House od Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, by James Frogue

7. Illicit Prescription Drug Use Among Pharmacists: Evidence of a Paradox of Familiarity, by Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger

SECTION V. Crime in Systems of Social Control: White-Collar Crime in Criminal Justice, Political, and Religious Systems

Readings:

8. Violated Trust: Conceptualizing Prosecutorial Misconduct, by Heather Schoenfeld

9. Uncollaring the Criminal: Understanding the Criminal Careers of Criminal Clerics, by Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Karen J. Terry, Tasha Youstin, and Matt Nobles

SECTION VI. Crimes in the Educational System

Readings:

10. Intimidating Education: Sexual Harassment in Criminology, by Elizabeth A. Stanko

11. ORI Findings of Scientific Misconduct in Clinical Trials and Publicly Funded Research, 1992-2002, by Sandra M. Reynolds

SECTION VII. Crime in the Economic and Technological Systems

Readings:

12. Insider Trading: The SEC Meets Karl Karcher, by Elizabeth Szockyj

13. Cybercrime Against Businesses, by Ramona R. Rantala

SECTION VIII. Crimes in the Housing System

Readings:

14. The Mortgage Meltdown as Normal Accidental Wrongdoing, by Donald Palmer and Michael W. Maher

15. 2009 Mortgage Fraud Report "Year in Review," by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

SECTION IX. Crimes by the Corporate System

Readings:

16. Is Corporate Crime Serious Crime? Criminal Justice and Corporate Crime Control, by Ronald C. Kramer

17. Food for Thought: An Investigation of Food and Drug Administration Reporting Practices, 1995-1999, by Michael J. Lynch, Roonald J. Burns, and Jefferson E. Holcomb

SECTION X. Environmental Crime

Readings:

18. Corporate Environmental Crimes and Social Inequality: New Directions for Environmental Justice Research, by David R. Simon

19. Crimes Against the Environment: Superfund Enforcement at Last, by Harold C. Barnett

SECTION XI. Explaining White-Collar Crime

Readings:

20. Are White-Collar and Common Offenders the Same? An Empirical and Theoretical Critique of a Recently Proposed General Theory of Crime, by Michael L. Benson and Elizabeth Moore

21. Completely Out of Control or the Desire to Be in Control? How Low Self-Control and the Desire for Control Relate to Corporate Offending, by Nicole Leeper Piquero, Andrea Schoepfer, and Lynn Langton

22. White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Specifying a Trajectory of Punctuated Situational Offending, by Nicole Leeper Piquero and Michael L. Benson

SECTION XII. Policing White-Collar Crime

Readings:

23. Documenting Inadequate Care in the Nursing Home: The Story of an Undercover Agent, by Garrett E. Speaks

24. Government Whistleblowers: Crime's Hidden Victims, by Carleen A. Botsko and Robert C. Wells

SECTION XIII. Judicial Proceedings and White-Collar Crime

Readings:

25. Local Prosecutors and Corporate Crime, by Michael L. Benson, Francis T. Cullen, and William J. Maakestad

26. Whistleblowing and Lawyers, by Barbara A. Belbot

SECTION XIV. The Corrections Subsystem and White-Collar Crime

Readings:

27. The Special Sensitivity of White-Collar Offenders to Prison: A Critique and Research Agenda, by Michael L. Benson and Francis T. Cullen

28. "Club Fed" in Japan? Incarceration Experiences of Japanese Embezzlers, by Jurg Gerber

29. White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Some Preliminary Findings, by David Weisburd, Ellen F. Chayet, and Elin J. Waring

Glossary

References

Credits and Sources

Index

About the Author

This is a good combination of original research (readings) and summary text.

Dr Danielle MacCartney

Behavioral Social Science Dept, Webster University

drupal

I really like the combined text and reader.

Dr Kent Kerley

Political Science Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham

drupal

This book is also excellent and goes well with the essentials.

Dr Mark Button

Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, Portsmouth University

drupal

This book is a perfect example of where ethics is not just a question of personal values. It highlights the challenges of enforcement and a new way of managing the protection of whistle-blowers. White-collar crime is a growing phenomena that needs to be examined and discussed in the class room. This is especially pertinent for students interested in business ethics and corporate governance.

Dr Pamela Robinson

International Management , Birmingham University

drupal

A good key text addressing the ever increasing levels of White Collar Crime and its detection in the work place. This would be ideal for stdudies in Security and Rsik Management at all levels.

Mr Andrew O'Brien

Public Servies, Peterborough Regional College

drupal

A good key text addressing the ever increasing levels of White Collar Crime and its detection in the work place. This would be ideal for stdudies in Security and Rsik Management at all levels.

Mr Andrew O'Brien

Public Servies, Peterborough Regional College

April 8, 2014

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I really like the combined text and reader.

Dr Kent Kerley

Political Science Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham

October 8, 2013

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Dr Pamela Robinson

International Management , Birmingham University

June 25, 2013