NCJ Number
163196
Date Published
1996
Length
462 pages
Annotation
Intended primarily as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate course on white-collar crime and related matters, this book explores the conceptual, metaphysical, and methodological issues involved in the study of white-collar crime.
Abstract
It delves into the character, causes, and consequences of this type of crime and explores the relationship of white-collar crime and elite deviance to other types of illegal and deviant activity. It explores the response of the law and of the justice system to white-collar crime and considers the prospects for deterring, preventing, and obliterating white-collar crime. Five chapters address systematic surveys of what is known not only about high-consensus forms of white-collar crime such as corporate crime and occupational crime, but also about often- neglected cognate, hybrid, and marginal forms of white-collar crime, including governmental crime, state-corporate crime, financial crime, technocrime, enterprise crime, contrepreneurial crime, and avocational crime. Universities and colleges as corporate criminals and academics as white-collar offenders are discussed in two of these chapters. Another chapter provides a comprehensive survey and evaluation of the entire range of theoretical explanations for white-collar crime. Three chapters provide a detailed treatment of the law and other forms of social control of white-collar crime; the justice system response to such crime by many different entities, ranging from the local police to Federal agencies, including the regulatory agencies; and the adjudication of white-collar crime, including the roles of grand juries, trial juries, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, as well as a discussion of sentencing guidelines. A chapter offers an exhaustive survey of the many possible responses to white-collar crime, from the imposition of fines to the structural transformation of the social order. 1,770 references and name and subject indexes