Full Description
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense. The authors explicate the processes and situational conditions that facilitate opportunities for white-collar crimes and the likelihood of being victimized by white-collar crime. In addition, they offer potential policy solutions that will mitigate this persistent and widespread social problem while being realistic and balanced in their treatment of the difficulties of control. With this fourth edition, Benson and Simpson have enlisted the aid of two young white-collar crime scholars, Jay P. Kennedy and Melissa Rorie, who bring new areas of expertise to the book that enhance its analytical depth and coverage of both white-collar crime and the opportunity perspective. New up-to-date case studies are included along with examinations of recent investigations into white-collar crime and its control. These timely updates reaffirm that this rigorous yet accessible book will remain a core resource for undergraduate and early graduate courses on white-collar crime.
Contents
Part I—White-Collar Crime: Introduction and Overview Chapter 1 - What Is White-Collar Crime? Chapter 2 - Who is the White-Collar Offender? Part II—Criminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective Chapter 3 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional and Modern Criminological Theories Chapter 4 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: Individual Traits and Psychological Approaches Chapter 5 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: The Opportunity Perspective Part III—Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime Chapter 6 - Financial Crimes in Health Care, Mortgages, Securities, Markets, and Crises Chapter 7 - Corporate Violence: Environmental, Workplace, and Manufacturing Offenses Part IV—The Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities Chapter 8 - The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity: Neutralization, Moral Disengagement, and Normalization of Deviance Chapter 9 - The Social Distribution of Opportunity: Class, Gender, and Race Part V—Control, Prevention, and the Future of White-Collar Crime Chapter 10 - Legal Controls: The Criminal Justice, Regulatory, and Civil Justice Systems Chapter 11 - Opportunities and Situational Prevention of White-Collar Crime: Using Legal and Extralegal Controls Chapter 12 - Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime.
