Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crime examines the current state of knowledge about and debate over white-collar crime. One of the most challenging and controversial topics in sociology, white-collar crime differs fundamentally from street crime because those who commit it typically lead lives of privilege. Written by top scholars in the field, the thirty-one selections in this book include both previously published works as well as original papers. All have been significantly edited for readability and suitability for students. Organized by rational-choice theory, the readings examine the nature and sources of white-collar crime opportunities, the characteristics of white-collar offenders, white-collar criminal decision-making processes, and diverse approaches to controlling white-collar crime. Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crime also includes twenty-one panels chosen or prepared specifically to illustrate issues discussed in the readings. Taken primarily from local and regional newspapers or from exemplary studies of white-collar crime, some panels summarize key research on the topic while others show that a great deal of white-collar crime occurs close to home; white-collar crime is not a problem confined to Washington, D.C., to Wall Street, or to the world's largest corporations. Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crime provides students with a critical overview of issues and problems in white-collar crime. It is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on deviance, social problems, and white-collar crime.
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In his 1939 presidential address to the American Sociological Association, Edwin Sutherland introduced and defined white-collar crime, called for more attention to it, and criticized academic social scientists for the class bias in their near-exclusive focus on crimes of the disadvantaged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mean executive compensation, corporate illegal behavior, delegitimation effects, small business crime, amoral calculator model, antitrust offending, formal sanction threats, fraud victimization, original technical culture, labor force ties, system interface problem, organizational crime, corporate offending, corporate crime control, thrift operators, thrift fraud, structural secrecy, authority leakage, manager controlled firms, motivational postures, nursing home compliance, organizational offenders, occupational crime, collective embezzlement, corporate deterrence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In his 1939 presidential address to the American Sociological Association, Edwin Sutherland introduced and defined white-collar crime, called for more attention to it, and criticized academic social scientists for the class bias in their near-exclusive focus on crimes of the disadvantaged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mean executive compensation, corporate illegal behavior, delegitimation effects, small business crime, amoral calculator model, antitrust offending, formal sanction threats, fraud victimization, original technical culture, labor force ties, system interface problem, organizational crime, corporate offending, corporate crime control, thrift operators, thrift fraud, structural secrecy, authority leakage, manager controlled firms, motivational postures, nursing home compliance, organizational offenders, occupational crime, collective embezzlement, corporate deterrence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North Carolina, United States, House Committee, General Accounting Office, Government Operations, Department of Justice, Pac Rim, Los Angeles Times, Free Press, American Sociological Review, John Braithwaite, University of Chicago Press, New Haven, Beverly Hills, Society Review, Yale University Press, Government Printing Office, Gilbert Geis, Oxford University Press, American Journal of Sociology, British Food Journal, Justice Department, University of California Press, Bureau of Justice Statistics New!
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- Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts (CourseSmart) by Howard Silverstone on page 22
- Corporate and Governmental Deviance: Problems of Organizational Behavior in Contemporary Society by M. David Ermann on page 55
- State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) by Raymond J. Michalowski in Back Matter
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