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Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America (4th Edition)

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I utilize Profit Without Honor as one of the required textbooks in an college course I teach at Herkimer County Community College entitled CJ 122: Intoduction to Economic Crime Investigation.

I find the book is quite comprehensive, extensively researched and very well written. There is just enough theoretical foundations along with a true plethora of historical and recent examples to educate and inform. My students have received the book very well, commenting that while it is far reaching it is also a fairly easy "read" that isn't to confusing or overwhelming. It's my opinion that Profit Without Honor is an excellent introductory text to aquaint the casual reader or the student with the far reaching, comprehensive nature of economic crime, white collar crime and fraud present today.

I look forward to a third edition when recent incidents such as Enron, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom etc. would hopefully be addressed.

As a side note, the fraud realted quotes from motion pictures that serve as chapter headings are hilarious! (i.e. Teacher: What is the capital of Nebraska? First Student: Lincoln. Teacher: Right. Who freeded the slaves? Second Student: Lincoln Teacher: Right. Charles Keating cooked the books at what S&L? Third Student: Lincoln?)

PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR combines immaculate scholarship, penetrating insight, and a witty and engaging style of writing. Readers will find material that will trigger righteous indignation, and insights that will make them nod in agreement and wonder why they hadn't thought of that. The authors provide a vast array of information on white-collar offenses that challenges current concentration on street law-breaking as the most serious crime problem in the United States.

That is probably the wrong word to begin a critique of a book... PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR is one of the finest books that I have ever read on the subject of white-collar crime. Each chapter was outstanding: the writing style; the organization of material, past and present; the research; the footnotes. PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR is outstanding.

PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR combines immaculate scholarship, penetrating insight, and a witty and engaging style of writing. Readers will find material that will trigger righteous indignation, and insights that will make them nod in agreement and wonder why they hadn't thought of that. The authors provide a vast array of information on white-collar offenses that challenges current concentration on street law-breaking as the most serious crime problem in the United States.

It turns out that this book wasn't mandatory to buy for my White Collar Crime class, but it contains great information that I can use for this class and future classes so I decided to keep it. The seller did an excellent job and shipped the book very fast. It arrived in excellent condition and overall I am very pleased with them.

This book has a lot of information! It's filled with soooo many examples to make sure it sticks... or makes you sick. Just a bit too many examples. Tiny little paragraphs of 3-15 examples of the topic in a row and then huge 5 page examples. I could do with less, but I think if they did cut down on the examples this book would be 200 pages shorter but still able to get the point across. As a student, I hate that there is no glossary/definitions easy to find, this makes it very hard to study. Also beware, this book has a few corny lines. Still, I guess overall its ok.

Great read. I received this book while studying Criminal Justice about 6 years ago. It was an eye opener on corporate greed and white collar crime. I still go back to the book from time to time. It gives a view of corruption you don't get from other media sources by providing an in depth background of different cases that have transpired.

This bok overall has captured my eye out of every book I have ever had to read for any course. It has many interestcing topics and stories I highly recommend this book. Received in good condition and good timing.

That is probably the wrong word to begin a critique of a book... PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR is one of the finest books that I have ever read on the subject of white-collar crime. Each chapter was outstanding: the writing style; the organization of material, past and present; the research; the footnotes. PROFIT WITHOUT HONOR is outstanding.

This book was the least expensive on Amazon, but the book still wasn't worth the money. It's a story book about stuff readily available in the news and on the Internet. Even our instructor, who is also an attorney, commented repeatedly that he hated the book--the class did too. In fact, the instructor said he is changing the book for next semester. We all told him to wait before telling the bookstore in hopes they would buy back this piece of crap from us poor students.