Understanding White Collar Crime

* What is the extent and impact of white collar crime? * How can white collar crime be explained? * How is white collar crime controlled? This comprehensive overview of white collar crime begins by introducing the concept, looking at its definition, its identification with class and status, and its development within criminology. The problems of estimating the vast extent of white collar and corporate crime are explored, and some of its major forms are outlined, including fraud, corruption, employment, consumer and environmental crime. Hazel Croall looks at the kinds of offenders who are convicted for white collar offences and at patterns of victimization which involve class, gender and age. She examines the various ways in which white collar crime has been explained and analysed, including individual, organizational and social structural perspectives. The issues surrounding regulation and punishment are explored, focusing on the contrast between white collar and other crimes, and on alternative approaches to its control. This new book is a revised, updated and readily accessible replacement for the author's highly successful White Collar Crime (Open UP, 1992). It includes expanded coverage of corporate crime, and provides an essential text for undergraduate courses in criminology, sociology and law.

ISBN 0335204279   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780335204274 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 326 Publisher Open University Press   Published in Milton Keynes Imprint Open University Press   Series editor Meguire, Mike Format Paperback   Series title Crime & Justice S. Publication date 01 Jun 2001   Previous ISBN 9780335096565 Writer of foreword Mike Meguire   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress HV6768.C75   Width (mm) 151 DEWEY 364.168   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 192

		Series editor's foreword
		Acknowledgements
1		Conceptualizing white collar crime		1
2		Exposing white collar crime		20
3		White collar offenders		45
4		White collar crime and victimization		62
5		Explaining white collar crime		79
6		Regulating white collar crime: law and policing		102
7		Regulating white collar crime: punishment		122
8		White collar crime and criminology		143
		Glossary		160
		References		164
		Index		175

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