White-collar crime : an opportunity perspective /
"White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective" analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and...
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Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | 2018. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Third edition. |
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Criminology and justice studies
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"White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective" analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational conditions that facilitate white-collar crimes. In addition, they offer potential solutions to this persistent and widespread social problem without being reductive in their treatment of the difficulties of control. With this third edition, Benson and Simpson have expanded their coverage with up-to-date case studies and discussions of recent investigations into white-collar crime and control. -- From publisher's description. |
Item Description: | Revised edition of the authors' Understanding white-collar crime, 2015. |
Carrier Form: | xx, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-267) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781138288881 1138288888 9781138288898 1138288896 |
Index Number: | HV6768 |
CLC: |
C913.2 D917 |
Call Number: | D917/B474/3rd ed. |
Contents: | Acknowledgements -- White-collar crime : introduction and overview -- What is white-collar crime -- Who is the white-collar offender -- Criminological theory and the opportunity perspective -- Explaining white-collar crime : traditional criminological theories -- Explaining white-collar crime : the opportunity perspective -- Applying the opportunity perspective to white-collar crime -- Financial crimes in health care, mortgages, securities, and markets -- Corporate violence : environmental, workplace, and manufacturing offenses -- The symbolic construction and social distribution of opportunities -- The symbolic construction of opportunity : neutralization, moral disengagement, and normalization of deviance -- The social distribution of opportunity : class, gender, and race -- Control, prevention, and the future of white-collar crime -- Legal controls : the criminal justice, regulatory, and civil justice systems -- Opportunities and situational prevention of white-collar crime : using legal and extralegal controls -- Opportunities and the future of white-collar crime -- References -- Inde. |