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<em>“This book will immediately draw the attention of experts and policy makers working in these fields … will supply every reader with considerable, novel insight into white collar crime at the level and depth not yet articulated in the past.”</em> <strong>• James F. Albrecht</strong>, Pace University, New York City</p>
Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology. The book contends, inter alia, that the traditional centrality of the individual actor within narratives of white-collar offending has receded somewhat in recent years despite being a founding artifact within its late twentieth- century discourse, and that therefore a detailed reassessment is overdue.
Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. interpreting and Understanding Offender Characteristics
Chapter 2. Business Offenders and Convenience
Expediency and Business Offending
Chapter 3. Understanding Business Offenders and Non-Offenders: Comparative Fieldwork
Chapter 4. Interpreting Female Business Offenders
Chapter 5. Moving Beyond the Emancipation Hypothesis
Chapter 6. Conceptions of Comparative Corruption: Understanding the Business of Mafia in Iran
Chapter 7. Profit in Crisis: The Role of Reactive Motive and Opportunity
Chapter 8. Longitudinal Perspectives and Complex Culpability
Chapter 9. Inconvenience and Business Offenders: Attempting Bottom-Up Control
Conclusion
References
Index