NCJ Number
180485
Editor(s)
Michael Levi
Date Published
1999
Length
1030 pages
Annotation
These two volumes examine patterns of fraud victimization and offending, explain involvement in fraud, and discuss perceptions of fraud and regulating fraud.
Abstract
The first volume includes 27 chapters on a variety of topics, including organized cross-Atlantic crime; abuse of the corporate form; counterfeiting credit cards; organizing plastic fraud; long-term consequences of victimization by white-collar crime; criminal violation of financial trust; the social construction of amateur property theft; white-collar crime motivation; and an empirical and theoretical critique of a proposed general theory of crime. The second volume presents 17 chapters on a variety of topics, including : crime and the average American; the myth of community tolerance toward white-collar crime; the idea of criminal deception; the control of tax evasion in Pakistan; “Club Fed” and the sentencing of white-collar offenders before and after Watergate; the reputational penalty firms bear from committing criminal fraud; and class, status, and the punishment of white-collar criminals. References, notes, figures, tables, appendixes, indexes