Rethinking White-Collar Crime [Hardcover]

This is a review and synthesis of the literature on white-collar crime. It is an attempt to encourage critical thought about the nature of crime, law, and criminal justice by examining white-collar crime. One of the unique themes of the work is an ongoing comparison between white-collar and conventional crime with the implication that learning about white-collar crime simultaneously teaches us something about conventional crime and criminal justice.TONY G. POVEDA is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Poveda is the author of numerous articles and professional papers relating to the FBI, organizational crime, and deviance. He is the author ofLawlessness and Reform: The FBI in Transition.

Definitional and Conceptual Issues
Demystifying the Crimes of the Powerful
Accidents, Isolated Episodes, and Rotten Apples: The Conventional Wisdom about White-Collar Crime
From Sutherland to the Justice Department: The Evolution of a Concept
White-Collar Crime and the Double Standard
The Problem of Explanation
What Are the Facts of White-Collar Crime?
Toward a Theory of White-Collar Crime
The Social Control of White-Collar Crime
Traditional Approaches to the Problem
Is White-Collar Crime Enforcement More Symbolic than Real?
Is There a Solution?
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