White Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective
Author:   Michael L. Benson (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA) ,  Sally S. Simpson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415956642


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 March 2009
Replaced By:   9780415704038
Format:   Paperback
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White Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective


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Author:   Michael L. Benson (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA) ,  Sally S. Simpson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780415956642


ISBN 10:   0415956641
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9780415704038
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

Part 1: White-Collar Crime and White-Collar Criminals 1. The First Problem: What is White-Collar Crime? 2. Who is the White-Collar Offender? 3. Traditional Explanations of White-Collar Crime Part 2: Opportunity and White-Collar Crime 4. Criminal Opportunities 5. Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime 6. Industries, Organizations and Opportunity 7. The Symbolic Construction of Opportunities 8. The Distribution of Opportunity: Race, Gender and Class Part 3: Responding to White-Collar Crime 9. Legal Remedies 10. Extra-Legal Remedies 11. Conclusions

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The authors have drawn on an extensive body of research in the field and further the arguement of their predecessors that white-collar crime is misunderstood and underexamined - Highly Recommended. -- Choice, September 2009


Author Information

Michael L. Benson is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He is a past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium. In addition to numerous journal articles on white-collar crime, he co-authored Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work, which received the 2000 Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Sally S. Simpson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently serves as Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association. She is past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium, and a recipient of the Herbert Bloch Award from the American Society of Criminology.

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