Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes

Awards:   Winner of Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.
Author:   Stephen Farrall (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, University of Derby) ,  Susanne Karstedt (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, Griffith University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199595037


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   06 February 2020
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.

Overview

Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes that are committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. The book delves into the 'grey zone' where illegal, unfair, unethical, and 'shady' practices coalesce: from the retailers who see themselves as victims of customers who take unfair and often illegal advantage of generous offers, to the consumers sold 'useless' insurance and financial packages and 'defrauded' by 'small print' clauses.The authors outline the contours of the contemporary moral economy, driven and shaped by technological innovation as much as new economic policies, and ask, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of consumption?

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Author:   Stephen Farrall (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, University of Derby) ,  Susanne Karstedt (Professor of Criminology, Professor of Criminology, Griffith University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780199595037


ISBN 10:   0199595038
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   06 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: (Im)moral economies, predatory societies: Into the realm of everyday crime 2: Change Regions and Changes in Normative Market-Cultures 3: Saints and Sinners: The Consumer as 'Victim' and 'Offender' in the Contemporary Marketplace 4: The Middling Sort 5: Communicating Crime, Risk & Blame: Constructing the Moral Climate of the Market 6: The Anxieties of the Market Place 7: Hitting Back: The Transmission Between Victimisation and Offending in the Marketplace 8: Market Changes and Market Anomie 9: Concluding Thoughts: The Till and the Ballot Box Methodological appendices

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Farrall and Karstedt's book is a visionary and well-researched text on a neglected area of criminology. It is no surprise that this book was the recipient of the Outstanding Book Award from the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. This book ought to be read not only by all criminologists but also by individuals involved in the decision-making roles of various industries (including the financial services, transport, energy and health sectors), regulators of those sectors as well as police and prison officers. * Matthew Muscat, International Criminology *


Farrall and Karstedt's book is a visionary and well-researched text on a neglected area of criminology. It is no surprise that this book was the recipient of the Outstanding Book Award from the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. This book ought to be read not only by all criminologists but also by individuals involved in the decision-making roles of various industries (including the financial services, transport, energy and health sectors), regulators of those sectors as well as police and prison officers. * Matthew Muscat, International Criminology *


Author Information

Stephen Farrall is a research professor in Criminology at the University of Derby. Previously he was Professor of Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, at Sheffield University. Farrall has also taught at Keele University, the University of Oxford, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Australia National University. He has his D.Phil from the University of Oxford and is a member of the British Society of Criminology and the ORCID research community. Susanne Karstedt is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Australia, since 2015. Before she held Chairs in Criminology at Keele University and the University of Leeds, UK. She has widely researched and written on cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of crime and justice, including violence, state crime, and atrocity crimes. She has been the recipient of several awards, most recently the 2019 Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. In 2018 she was elected as a member of the Jury for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

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