Research Catalog

Title

You just got cheated! : understanding white-collar crime / Sibichen K. Mathew.

Author

Mathew, Sibichen K.

Publication

New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Response, 2020.

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Details

Description

xii, 379 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Most of us have become victims of frauds and related crimes at some point or other in our life. We may not have answers to pertinent questions related to the cheating we were subjected to such as - Who is responsible for the fraud committed on us?, What makes us vulnerable to cheating?, Who could have prevented the crime?, What could we do to prevent the crime in future?, and What action should we take to recover the losses? In this book, we examine above questions by briefly analyzing various types of white collar crimes, drawing examples of such crimes that have happened across the world. History reveals that crimes travel across the globe in time as criminals learn from each other for their criminal indulgences. We hear about a crime elsewhere - in a different city or a country - and within no time you find the same thing happening with necessary improvisation and sophistication in our own neighborhood. The focus, as mentioned earlier, is on the victims of such crimes. Through the analysis of various WCCs detailed in the subsequent chapters, we would be able to gain some insights into the why, how, and what of the WCCs from the perspective of victimology"--

Subject

• White collar crimes
• Fraud
• Crimes en col blanc
• Fraude
• fraud

Contents

You Have Been Cheated -- What Constitutes White-Collar Criminality? -- Where is Your Money? The Investment Frauds and the Victims -- Too Large to Fail; Too Big to Jail? Corporate Frauds and Victims -- Profits through Peril: Corporate Victimization of The Planet -- Blood Suckers: Occupational Abuses -- The Unholy Nexus: The Powerful World of Bribery and Corruption -- Your Life in Their Hands: Crimes in Health and Pharma Sectors -- Gullible Victims: Corporate Abuse of Consumers -- White-Collar Crimes in Education -- In the Name of God: The Victims of Religious Crimes -- Cyber Victims -- Why People Commit White-Collar Crimes and Why Others Fall Victim? -- Curbing White-Collar Crime and Preventing Victimization -- Heroes Turn Victims: Whistleblowers of White-Collar Crimes.

ISBN

• 9789353884338
• 9353884330
• 9789353884345 (canceled/invalid)
• 9789353884352 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020019810

OCLC

• on1224583770
• 1224583770
• SCSB-14390301

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries