The Criminology of White-Collar Crime [Paperback]

• The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar crime and criminology and criminal justice.
  
• The book also puts together critical and emerging topics within criminology and criminal justice that have important implications for the study of white-collar crime and criminology/criminal justice more generally.

 

In an attempt to enrich and broaden our understanding of crime and justice more generally, this book focuses on white-collar crime, integrating and synthesizing the disparate ideas, themes and methods of white-collar crime, criminology and criminal justice.

Theoretical Perspectives on Crime.- Understanding Criminogenic Corporate Culture: What White-Collar Crime Researchers Can Learn from Studies of the Adolescent EmploymentCrime Relationship.- General Strain Theory and White-Collar Crime.- Emergent Themes and Methodological Issues.- Persistent Heterogeneity or State Dependence? An Analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Act Violations.- White-Collar Crimes and the Fear of Crime: A Review.- The Role of Organizational Structure in the Control of Corporate Crime and Terrorism.- Globalization and White-Collar Crime.- Developmental Trajectories of White-Collar Crime.- Crime Prevention and Control.- White-Collar Crime from an Opportunity Perspective.- Self-Regulatory Approaches to White-Collar Crime: The Importance of Legitimacy and Procedural Justice.

Sally S. Simpson (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts/Amherst) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland/College Park. Ongoing research projects include a factorial survey of environmental professionals to assess regulatory attitudes toward and strategies for business, a meta-analysis of corporate crime intervenlsŸ