White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective [Hardcover]

Part IWhite-Collar Crime: Introduction and Overview? Chapter 1  What Is White-Collar Crime?? Chapter 2  Who is the White-Collar Offender???Part IICriminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective? Chapter 3  Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional and Modern Criminological Theories? Chapter 4  Explaining White-Collar Crime: Individual Traits and Psychological Approaches? Chapter 5  Explaining White-Collar Crime: The Opportunity Perspective??Part IIIApplying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime? Chapter 6 ?Financial Crimes in Health Care, Mortgages, Securities, Markets, and Crises? Chapter 7??Corporate Violence: Environmental, Workplace, and Manufacturing Offenses??Part IVThe Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities? Chapter 8  The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity: Neutralization, Moral Disengagement, and Normalization of Deviance? Chapter 9  The Social Distribution of Opportunity: Class, Gender, and Race??Part VControl, Prevention, and the Future of White-Collar Crime? Chapter 10  Legal Controls: The Criminal Justice, Regulatory, and Civil Justice Systems? Chapter 11  Opportunities and Situational Prevention of White-Collar Crime: Using Legal and Extralegal Controls? Chapter 12  Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime.

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense. The authors explicate the processes and situational conditions that facilitate opportunities for white-collar crimes and the likelihood of being victimized by white-collar crime. In addition, they offer potential policy solutions that will mitigate this persistent and widespread social problem while being realisticl³Ù