NCJ Number
128760
Date Published
1990
Length
258 pages
Annotation
The book, designed as a source book for students interested in the field of business crime, presents business crime as a distinctive social phenomenon and reviews the evidence of various kinds of business crime through the application of sociological theories.
Abstract
The author presents the argument that business crime should be seen as distinct from ordinary property crime because of the business environment in which it takes place, and, therefore, these crimes can be managed or controlled mainly internally by the enterprise itself or by the business community overall. Part I presents a general analysis of the distinctive character of business crime. Part 2 discusses those characteristics using empirical studies of employee crime, insurance fraud, tax evasion and avoidance, liquidations and receiverships, the financial sector and securities offenses, and health and safety regulation in industry. The author concludes by listing the criteria of a successful control system which are identification, accreditation, exclusion, rehabilitation, and compensation. 11 tables and footnotes at the end of each chapter.