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Crimes of privilege : readings in white-collar crime

Neal Shover, John Wright

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Preface 1. Conceptual Issues and Skirmishes Introduction Criminality Is White-Collar Crime? Collaring the Crime, Not the Criminal: Reconsidering the Concept of Crime Organizational Crime Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations 2. Victims and Costs Introduction The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of Crime Personal Fraud and Its Victims Crime Victimization Consequences of Victimization by Crime Victims of Fraud: Comparing Victims of and Violent Crime 3. Criminal Opportunities Introduction Heads I WIn, Tails You Lose: Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry From Fiddle Factors to Networks of Collusion: Charting the Waters of Small Business Crime Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior Opportunity and Crime in the Medical Profession Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of a State-Corporate Crime 4. Decision Making Introduction Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime Organizational Culture and Organizational Crime Profits, Pressure, and Corporate Law-Breaking Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations 5. Sources and Characteristics of Offenders Introduciton Who Is the Criminal? Gender and Varieties of Crime Corporate Control, Crime, and Compensation: An Examination of Large Corporations Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior Characteristics and Sources of Crime Competition and Motivation to Crime 6. Controlling Crime? Introduction On Theory and Action for Corporate Crime Control Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Problems and Contraints Corporate Crime and Criminal Justice System Capacity: Government Response to Financial Institution Fraud An Evolving Compliance Model for Tax Enforcement Cooperative Models and Corporate Crime: Panacea or Cop-Out?

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Preface 1. Conceptual Issues and Skirmishes Introduction Criminality Is White-Collar Crime? Collaring the Crime, Not the Criminal: Reconsidering the Concept of Crime Organizational Crime Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations 2. Victims and Costs Introduction The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of Crime Personal Fraud and Its Victims Crime Victimization Consequences of Victimization by Crime Victims of Fraud: Comparing Victims of and Violent Crime 3. Criminal Opportunities Introduction Heads I WIn, Tails You Lose: Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry From Fiddle Factors to Networks of Collusion: Charting the Waters of Small Business Crime Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior Opportunity and Crime in the Medical Profession Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of a State-Corporate Crime 4. Decision Making Introduction Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime Organizational Culture and Organizational Crime Profits, Pressure, and Corporate Law-Breaking Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations 5. Sources and Characteristics of Offenders Introduciton Who Is the Criminal? Gender and Varieties of Crime Corporate Control, Crime, and Compensation: An Examination of Large Corporations Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior Characteristics and Sources of Crime Competition and Motivation to Crime 6. Controlling Crime? Introduction On Theory and Action for Corporate Crime Control Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Problems and Contraints Corporate Crime and Criminal Justice System Capacity: Government Response to Financial Institution Fraud An Evolving Compliance Model for Tax Enforcement Cooperative Models and Corporate Crime: Panacea or Cop-Out?

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Preface 1. Conceptual Issues and Skirmishes Introduction Criminality Is White-Collar Crime? Collaring the Crime, Not the Criminal: Reconsidering the Concept of Crime Organizational Crime Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations 2. Victims and Costs Introduction The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of Crime Personal Fraud and Its Victims Crime Victimization Consequences of Victimization by Crime Victims of Fraud: Comparing Victims of and Violent Crime 3. Criminal Opportunities Introduction Heads I WIn, Tails You Lose: Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry From Fiddle Factors to Networks of Collusion: Charting the Waters of Small Business Crime Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior Opportunity and Crime in the Medical Profession Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of a State-Corporate Crime 4. Decision Making Introduction Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime Organizational Culture and Organizational Crime Profits, Pressure, and Corporate Law-Breaking Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations 5. Sources and Characteristics of Offenders Introduciton Who Is the Criminal? Gender and Varieties of Crime Corporate Control, Crime, and Compensation: An Examination of Large Corporations Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior Characteristics and Sources of Crime Competition and Motivation to Crime 6. Controlling Crime? Introduction On Theory and Action for Corporate Crime Control Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Problems and Contraints Corporate Crime and Criminal Justice System Capacity: Government Response to Financial Institution Fraud An Evolving Compliance Model for Tax Enforcement Cooperative Models and Corporate Crime: Panacea or Cop-Out?

Key concepts: Corporate crime, White-collar crime, Criminology, Cultural criminology, Criminal justice, Crime control, Property crime, Rational choice theory (criminology)

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