Organized and corporate crime in Europe : offers that can't be refused
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Organized and corporate crime in Europe : offers that can't be refused
Dartmouth, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-178) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An attempt to provide a joint analysis of white collar, corporate and organized crime, focusing on specific cases occurring in Europe. The work presents case studies which are based on the attempt to identify qualitative similarities rather than to sensationalize various episodes.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 "Bad" economies: Sutherland and criminology
- white collar crime - definitions
- white collar crime - characteristics
- white collar crime - aetiology
- white collars and men of honour. Part 2 Criminal enterprises: definitions
- the aetiology of deficit
- criminal enterprises
- from crime to business and back. Part 3 Merchants, entrepreneurs and organizations: redemption through risk
- speculators and confidence men
- insider deviants
- Hermes and innnovation
- creative destruction
- the murky objectivity of the firm
- enterprises without entrepreneurs
- approval or, at least, non disapproval
- dispersed social agencies
- who benefits?
- the technology of foolishness
- dark and grey shades
- mock organizations
- operative goals and official goals
- enterprise culture. Part 4 Work as crime: purgatories abroad
- risk and ethics
- opportunity perceivers
- conflicting goals?
- ethical diversification
- sins without sinners
- incursions into illegality
- non-profit organizations
- mocking one's own principles. Part 5 Crime as work: trust - a red herring
- the work discipline of theft
- merchants and thieves
- your bag and your life
- cui bono?
- competing in crime
- the de-skilling of criminal work
- a Fordist-type criminal labour. Part 6 Offers that can't be refused: the war of art
- the art of war
- poisons
- trafficking in humans and human parts
- you can bank on it
- mutual entrepreneurial promotion.
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