White-collar crime : an opportunity perspective
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White-collar crime : an opportunity perspective
(Criminology and justice studies)
Routledge, 2009
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 223-236
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As an instructor teaching white collar crime, are you frustrated by texts which leave your students feeling outraged but helpless about the subject? Assigning this new text by Mike Benson and Sally Simpson can successfully address that problem, because it explains to students why white-collar crime is so prevalent and so difficult to control. Using this text, instructors can show students how these crimes are carried out in ways that make them difficult to discover. Instructors can also show how opportunities for white-collar crimes could be reduced if we were to approach the problem from the perspective of situational crime prevention. The authors address the difficulty of controlling white-collar crime in detail, and speculate on the future of white-collar crime in the rapidly globalizing world of trans-national corporations.
Table of Contents
Part 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. Conclusions
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