Contents
Preface;
1. Conceptual Issues and Skirmishes;
Introduction;
White-Collar Criminality ;
Is "White-Collar Crime" Crime?
Collaring the Crime, Not the Criminal: Reconsidering the Concept of White-Collar Crime;
Organizational Crime;
Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations;
2. Victims and Costs;
Introduction;
The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of White-Collar Crime;
Personal Fraud and Its Victims;
White-Collar Crime Victimization;
Consequences of Victimization by White-Collar Crime;
Victims of Fraud: Comparing Victims of White-Collar and Violent Crime;
3. White-Collar Criminal Opportunities;
Introduction;
"Heads I WIn, Tails You Lose": Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry;
From Fiddle Factors to Networks of Collusion: Charting the Waters of Small Business Crime;
Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior;
Opportunity and Crime in the Medical Profession;
Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of a State-Corporate Crime;
4. Decision Making;
Introduction;
Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research;
A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime;
Organizational Culture and Organizational Crime;
Profits, Pressure, and Corporate Law-Breaking;
Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations;
5. Sources and Characteristics of White-Collar Offenders;
Introduction;
Who Is the White-Collar Criminal?
Gender and Varieties of White-Collar Crime;
Corporate Control, Crime, and Compensation: An Examination of Large Corporations;
Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior;
Characteristics and Sources of White-Collar Crime;
Competition and Motivation to White-Collar Crime;
6. Controlling White-Collar Crime?
Introduction;
On Theory and Action for Corporate Crime Control;
Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Problems and Constraints;
Corporate Crime and Criminal Justice System Capacity: Government Response to Financial Institution Fraud;
An Evolving Compliance Model for Tax Enforcement;
Cooperative Models and Corporate Crime: Panacea or Cop-Out?