Research Catalog

Title

White-collar and economic crime : multidisciplinary and cross-national perspectives / edited by Peter Wickman, Timothy Dailey.

Publication

Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wickman, Peter M.
• Dailey, Timothy.
• International Sociological Association. Research Committee on Deviance and Social Control.

Description

xviii, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• White collar crimes > United States > Congresses
• Corporations > Corrupt practices > United States > Congresses
• Corporations > Corrupt practices
• White collar crimes
• Economische criminaliteit
• Witteboordencriminaliteit
• Fraude
• Ondernemingen
• United States

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers presented at a symposium held Feb. 7-9, 1980 at the State University of New York College at Potsdam and sponsored by the Research Committee on Deviance and Social Control of the International Sociological Association.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Preface / John P. Clark -- Acknowledgments / Peter Wickman and Timothy Dailey -- Introduction / Peter Wickman and Timothy Dailey -- Part I: White-collar crime reexamined: expansion of conceptual perspectives and emphases -- 1. Edwin H. Sutherland: A bibliographical and analytical commentary / Gilbert Geis and Colin Goff -- 2. White-collar crime, organized crime, and the business establishment: resolving a crisis in criminological theory / Dwight C. Smith, Jr. -- 3. International white-collar crime / Leon Sheleff -- 4. crime and the abuse of power: offenses and offenders beyond the reach of the law / Charles E. Reasons -- Part II: Organizational and structural concomitants and consequences -- 5. Corporate crime: an organizational perspective / Ronald C. Kramer -- 6. Growth in the underground economy? an empirical issue / Susan B. Long -- 7. Crime and economy in the Communist countries / Maria Los -- 8. The level of theft and the size of the public sector: some empirical evidence / Michael K. Block -- 9. Critical comments on Michael K. Block's "The level of theft and the size of the public sector: some empirical evidence" / Laureen Snider -- 10. The production of corporate crime in corporate capitalism / Harold C. Barnett -- Part III: Social control: sanctions and deterrent effects -- 11. Legal control of safety on British offshore oil installations / W.G. Carson -- 12. Social control and the legal profession / Jerry Parker -- 13. Traditional and corporate theft: a comparison of sanctions / Laureen Snider -- 14. The social organization of white-collar sanctions: a study of prosecution and punishment in the federal courts / John Hagan, Ilene Nagel, and Celeste Albonetti.

ISBN

• 0669046655
• 9780669046656

LCCN

81047561

OCLC

• ocm07653718
• 7653718
• SCSB-78060

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library