Research Catalog

Title

White-collar criminal : the offender in business and the professions / edited, with introductions and notes, by Gilbert Geis.

Publication

New York, NY : Atherton Press, 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

Geis, Gilbert

Description

xii, 448 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• White collar crimes > United States
• White collar crimes
• Witteboordencriminaliteit
• United States

Note

• Rev. ed., compiled by G. Geis and R. F. Meier published (c1977) under title: White-collar crime.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [433]-438.

Contents

• I. What is "white-collar cime"? -- 1. The criminaloid / Edward Alsworth Ross -- 2. Criminals of the upperworld / Albert Morris -- 3. White-collar criminality / Edwin H. Sutherland -- II. Corporate and business white-collar crime -- 4. Crime of corporations / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 5. Criminological theories of violations of wartime regulations / Marshall B. Clinard -- 6. Why businessmen violate the law / Robert E. Lane -- 7. The Heavy Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases of 1961 / Gilbert Geis -- 8. How ethical are businessmen? / Raymond C. Baumhart -- 9. Increasing community control over corporate crime : a problem in the Law of Sanctions / Alan M. Dershowitz -- III. Commercial and professional white-collar crime -- 10. White-collar offenses in the wholesale meat industry in Detroit / Frank E. Hartung -- 11. White-collar crime and social structure / Vilhelm Aubert -- 12. Social structure and rent-control violations / Harry V. Ball -- 13. Cheating on taxes / Edmond Cahn -- 14. The criminal violation of financial trust / Donald R. Cressey -- 15. Occupationsl structure and criminal behavior : prescription violations by retail pharmacists / Richard Quinney -- 16. Ambulance chasing : a case study of deviation and control within the legal profession / Kenneth J. Reichstein
• IV. White-collar exploitation and its victims -- 17. The merchant and the low-income consumer / David Caplovitz -- 18. Home maintenance and repair / President's Committee on Consumer Interests -- 19. Automobiles / President's Committee on Consumer Interests -- 20. What the health huckersters are up to / Changing Times -- 21. Van Doren as victim : student reaction / Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang -- 22. Public attitudes towards a form of white-collar cime / Donald J. Newman -- V. White-collar offenses and the legal process -- 23. Illusion or deception : the use of "props" and "mock-ups" in television advertising / Bruce E. Fritch -- 24. The defense of white-collar accused / Harris B. Steinberg -- 25. Russia shoots its business crooks / Geogre Feifer -- 26. 101 British white-collar criminals / G.E. Levens -- 27. A study of incarcerated white-collar offenders / John C. Spencer -- VI. Controversy regarding the concept of white collar-crime -- 28. Is "white-collar crime: crime? / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 29. Who is the criminal? / Paul W. Tappan -- 30. A re-examination of the concept of white-collar crime / Robert G. Caldwell -- 31. Some observations on the use of criminal sanctions in enforcing economic regulations / Sanford H. Kadish -- 32. The use of criminal sanctions in the enforcement of economic legislation : a sociological view / Harry V. Ball and Lawrence M. Friedman.

LCCN

68016407

OCLC

• ocm00264995
• 264995
• SCSB-184057

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library