NCJ Number
141193
Date Published
1993
Length
210 pages
Annotation
The 12 articles contained in this volume examine issues associated with various forms of white-collar offenses and address particular instances of such behavior.
Abstract
Several articles deal with organization offenses that reflect the increasing number of crimes now charged against corporations rather than against their personnel. Additionally, the articles emphasize the tendency of white- collar crime research to remain relatively indifferent to whether offenses are prosecuted civilly or defined as regulatory rather than criminal offenses as long as the illegal behavior could have been brought before a criminal court. Generally, white-collar crime is recognized to have significant physical, fiscal, and social costs. Topics addressed include the ongoing crusade against insider training, the various illegal tricks that are carried out on the floor of the Chicago trade exchanges, the white-collar crime problem in the United Kingdom, the dilemmas of accountants who are expected under penalty of legal liability to expose the wrongdoing of those who hire them, embezzling, and the control of white-collar crime. 418 footnotes