Controversies in White-Collar Crime / Edition 1

by Gary Potter

Overview

Original writings explore the issue of white-collar crime and the controversies that surround it, focusing on the vastness of state-corporate and white-collar crime, the victimization that results, and the ways these crimes affect society environmentally, politically, economically and personally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781583605141
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/2001
Series:	Controversies in Crime and Justice Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Thinking About White-Collar Crime 2. White-Collar Crime 3. State-Corporate Crime in a Globalized World: Myth or Major Challenge? 4. Toward an Understanding of Academic Deviance 5. A Critical Model for the Study of Resource Colonialism and Native Resistance 6. Toxic Crimes and Environmental Justice: Examining the Hidden Dangers of Hazardous Waste 7. The Scandalization of America: Political Corruption in the Postmodern Era 8. Downsized by Law, Ideology and Pragmatics – Policing White-Collar Crime 9. Globalization, State-Corporate Crime, and Women: The Strategic Role of Women’s NGOs in the New World Order 10. States, Corporations and the ‘New’ World Order