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Overview"""White Collar Crime"" is an introduction to the subject from an opportunity-based perspective. This perspective focuses on the role of opportunity in structuring the frequency and type of white collar crime. All such crime occurs because offenders perceive that there is an opportunity to act, and the authors focus on this because they feel it is a more convincing rationale for explaining how and why it occurs than other criminological theories that focus on anomie, organizations, social control and its lack, and psychological profiling. While wedded to this perspective, the book is comprehensive in its coverage of the issue. It is divided into three parts: an introduction to the subject and the theories surrounding it; coverage of all aspects of white collar crime from an opportunity perspective; and, finally, chapters that consider how we should respond to it and prevent it. The subject is covered in most if not all criminal justice and criminology programs, and interest has been growing immensely due to factors like the Enron case and identity theft rings. The authors are two of the best known figures in the subfield." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael L. Benson (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA) , Sally S. SimpsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: v. 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780415956635ISBN 10: 0415956633 Pages: 244 Publication Date: 12 March 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Replaced By: 9780415704021 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsPart 1: White-Collar Crime and White-Collar Criminals 1. The First Problem: What is White-Collar Crime? 2. Who is the White-Collar Offender? 3. Traditional Explanations of White-Collar Crime Part 2: Opportunity and White-Collar Crime 4. Criminal Opportunities 5. Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime 6. Industries, Organizations and Opportunity 7. The Symbolic Construction of Opportunities 8. The Distribution of Opportunity: Race, Gender and Class Part 3: Responding to White-Collar Crime 9. Legal Remedies 10. Extra-Legal Remedies 11. ConclusionsReviewsThe authors have drawn on an extensive body of research in the field and further the arguement of their predecessors that white-collar crime is misunderstood and underexamined - Highly Recommended. -- Choice, September 2009 Author InformationMichael L. Benson is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He is a past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium. In addition to numerous journal articles on white-collar crime, he co-authored Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work, which received the 2000 Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Sally S. Simpson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently serves as Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association. She is past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium, and a recipient of the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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