: Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert L. Geis
: Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert L. Geis
: International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387341118
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: CHF 141.90
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: Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie
: English
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Insider trading. Savings and loan scandals. Enron.

Corporate crimes were once thought of as victimless offenses, but now-with billions of dollars and an increasingly global economy at stake-this is understood to be far from the truth.

The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime explores the complex interplay of factors involved when corporate cultures normalize lawbreaking, and when organizational behavior is pushed to unethical (and sometimes inhumane) limits. Featuring original contributions from a panel of experts representing North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, this timely volume presents multidisciplinary views on recent corporate wrongdoing affecting economic and social conditions worldwide.

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Contributors offer case studies, historical and sociopolitical analyses, theoretical and legal perspectives, and comparative studies, featuring examples as varied as NASA, Parmalat, the Italian government, and Watergate. Criminal justice responses to these phenomena, the role of the media in exposing or minimizing them, prevention, regulation, and self- policing strategies, and larger global issues emerging from economic crime are also featured.

Richly diverse in its coverage, The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime is stimulating reading for students, academics, and professionals in a wide range of fields, from criminology and criminal justice to business and economics, psychology to social policy to ethics. This powerful information is certain to change many of our deeply held views on criminal behavior.
Table of Contents6
Preface9
Acknowledgments14
Part I Introduction: Theoretical Issues in Organizational and Corporate Lawbreaking16
1 Beyond Macro- and Micro-Levels of Analysis, Organizations, and the Cultural Fix17
Causes of Individual Crime and Deviance: The Covert Debate19
Situated Action: Institutions, Agency, and the Macro–Meso–Micro-Connection20
Situated Action: The Empirical and Conceptual Foundation inWhite-Collar Crime22
The Cultural Fix and The Normalization of Deviance24
The Connection Between Causes and Strategies for Control27
Endnotes31
References35
2 Understanding Corporate Lawbreaking: From Profit Seeking to Law Finding39
Matters of Method40
Causes and Conditions of Corporate Lawbreaking41
Business Rationality and Legal Compliance42
Corporations, Culture, and Choice45
Law and Lawbreaking50
Endnotes54
References59
3 Attributing Responsibility for Organizational Wrongdoing64
The Social Construction of Organizational Wrongdoing65
Lessons from the Pinto and Challenger Cases65
Willfulness and Organizational Wrongdoing70
A Four-Step Model of Attributing Responsibility for Organizational Wrongdoing73
Step 1: The Social Construction of Facts and Norms74
Step 2: Actor Characteristics and Organizational/Institutional Context of Action77
Actor Characteristics77
Organizational/Institutional Context of Action79
Step 3: Audience Characteristics80
Step 4: Attribution of Responsibility82
Conclusion82
Endnotes83
References86
Part II White-Collar Criminogenesis: Structure, Motivation, and Rationalization92
1 Generative Worlds of White-Collar Crime93
Definitional Nets93
Class and Respectability95
Interpersonal and Cultural Correlates97
Class, Culture and Criminogenesis100
Competition101
Entitlement104
Crime Constructions105
Beyond Generative Worlds106
Acknowledgments107
References107
2 Because They Can Motivations and Intent of White-Collar Criminals110
I. White-Collar Crime Committed with an Ostensible Awareness of the Criminal Implications113
Deliberate and “Fully Conscious” Behavior113
League of Gentlemen: Business Crimes as “SOP” (Standard Operating Procedure)113
Condemning the Condemners: The Van der Valks Take on the Regulators114
Opportunistic and Predatory Deviance: The Savings and Loan Scandals116
Mega-Fraud at the Top117
II. White-Collar Crime Committed with an Ostensible Unawareness of the Criminal Implications: Filters, Blindness, and Pathology119
Lone Trader: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope at Barings119
EyesWide Shut: The “Split Personality” Company122
When Corporate Strategy Kills: GreatWestern Railways and the Southall Train Crash123
III. Where the Contextual Ambiguities in the Law Encourage Would-be Offenders to Believe (or be Able to Rationalize to Themselves) That They are not Engaged in Illegal Activity127
Pushing the Boundaries: The Guinness Affair127
Conclusion130
Acknowledgments131
Endnotes131
References133
Part III Critical and Postmodern Approaches to Research135
1 Researching Corporate and White-Collar Crime in an Era of Neo-Liberalism136
Introduction: “Knowing” About Corporate and White-Collar Crimes136
Neo-Liberalism and the Entrepreneurial University138
Taking the University to Market138
Criminology and “Power”141
Researching Corporate and White-Collar Crime in an Era of Neo-Liberalism?144
Regulating Funding: The Construction of Feasible Enquiry145
Regulating “Access”: Power, Control, Exclusion146
Disseminating Research on the Crimes of the Powerful148
Conclusion: Researching Corporate and White-Collar Crime in an Era of Neo-Liberalism150
Endnotes152
References154
2 An Age of Miracles?159
Endnotes167
References171
3 White-Collar Crime in a Postmodern,Globalized World174
E. H. Sutherland and the Discovery of White-Collar Crime: Traditional Roots and a Modern Context174
Contemporary White-Collar C