As an instructor teaching white collar crime, are you frustrated by texts which leave your students feeling outraged but helpless about the subject? Assigning this new text by Mike Benson and Sally Simpson can successfully address that problem, because it explains to students why white-collar crime is so prevalent and so difficult to control. Using this text, instructors can show students how these crimes are carried out in ways that make them difficult to discover. Instructors can also show how opportunities for white-collar crimes could be reduced if we were to approach the problem from the perspective of situational crime prevention. The authors address the difficulty of controlling white-collar crime in detail, and speculate on the future of white-collar crime in the rapidly globalizing world of trans-national corporations.
Author(s): Michael Benson
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 7
Series Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 What is White-Collar Crime?......Page 14
2 Who is the White-Collar Offender?......Page 32
3 Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional Criminological Theories......Page 66
4 The Nature of White-Collar Crime: Opportunities and Techniques......Page 88
5 Opportunity and White-Collar Property Crimes......Page 104
6 Opportunity and Corporate Violence......Page 132
7 The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity......Page 150
8 The Social Distribution of Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Class......Page 174
9 Control, Prevention, and Opportunity......Page 196
10 Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime......Page 214
Notes......Page 234
References......Page 236
Index......Page 250
