NCJ Number
156143
Editor(s)
D Nelken
Date Published
1994
Length
622 pages
Annotation
White-collar crime is explored.
Abstract
This volume contains a selection of journal articles addressing either the theoretical debates over the causes and responses to white-collar crime or which add to the knowledge about the several kinds of white-collar and business crime. These articles are broken down into three parts. Part I offers a brief introduction to some of the controversy that surrounds the meaning and value of white-collar crime as a criminological category. Part II contains a selection of attempts to explain the causes of white-collar crime. It covers both general reviews of criminological explanations of this type of misbehavior and case studies of particular examples of white-collar crime. Part III offers a selection of descriptions of the social response to various types of white-collar crime as well as an introduction to some of the academic controversies concerning the explanation and justification of the special features of social reaction to these forms of misbehavior. References, footnotes, name index