Oxford handbook of white-collar crime

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Core Themes in the Study of White-Collar Crime / Michael L. Benson, Shanna R. Van Slyke, Francis T. Cullen -- The Roots and Variant Definitions of the Concept of / Gilbert Geis -- Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Implications of Alternative Definitions of (3z(BWhite-Collar Crime(3y(B / Henry N. Pontell -- What Is Known and What Should Be Known About White-Collar Crime Victimization? / Hazel Croall -- The Costs of White-Collar Crime / Mark A. Cohen -- Who Commits White-Collar Crime, and What Do We Know about Them? / Paul M. Klenowski, Kimberly D. Dodson -- White-Collar Criminals / Dean A. Dabney -- The Pool of Potential White-Collar Criminals / Andy Hochstetler -- Middle-Class Crime / Susanne Karstedt -- Gender Constructions / Mary Dodge -- Adolescent Precursors of White-Collar Crime / Simon I. Singer -- White-Collar Criminal Participation and the Life Course / Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero -- Developmental Perspectives on White-Collar Criminality / Michael L. Benson -- White-Collar Crimes of the Financial Crisis / Spencer Headworth, John L. Hagan -- Organizational Political Economy and White-Collar Crime / Harland Prechel -- Economic Fluctuations and Crises / Sally S. Simpson, Melissa Rorie -- Cultural Variation / Susyan Jou, Bill Hebenton, Lennon Chang -- Criminal Decision Making in Organizational Contexts / Edward Tomlinson, Amanda Pozzuto -- Opportunities for White-Collar Crime / Tamara D. Madensen -- Employee Theft / Jay P. Kennedy -- Criminogenic Organizational Properties and Dynamics / Wim Huisman -- Organizational Self-Restraint / Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos, Peter Fleming -- Oversight and Rule Making as Political Conflict / Mary Kreiner Ramirez -- Regulation / Neil Gunningham -- Comparing Assumptions Underlying Regulatory Inspection Strategies / Peter Mascini -- The Credibility of Oversight and Aggregate Rates of White-Collar Crime / Wei Wang, Hongming Cheng -- Investigating and Prosecuting White-Collar Criminals / Lucian E. Dervan, Ellen S. Podgor -- Sentencing Respectable Offenders / Michael Levi -- Effects on White-Collar Defendants of Criminal Justice Attention and Sanctions / Brian K. Payne -- White-Collar Crime and Perceptual Deterrence / Ray Paternoster, Stephen G. Tibbetts -- The Practical Challenges of Responding to Corporate Crime / Peter Cleary Yeager -- Public Opinion and Public Policy on White-Collar Crime / Shanna R. Van Slyke, Donald J. Rebovich.

This Handbook brings together the accumulated wisdom of a diverse group of leading scholars on white-collar crime and corporate crime. It begins with an overview of the core themes in the study of white-collar crime. Ensuing chapters explicate the definition of white-collar crime, illuminate the distinguishing demographic, social, and psychological characteristics of white-collar offenders, and carefully dissect the social and economic costs of this form of crime. International in focus, the volume includes incisive analyses of a broad range of white-collar crimes and represents a major advance in white-collar criminology.