International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime

• Introduction: Theoretical Issues in Organizational and Corporate Lawbreaking.- Beyond Macro- and Micro-Levels of Analysis, Organizations, and the Cultural Fix.- Understanding Corporate Lawbreaking: From Profit Seeking to Law Finding.- Attributing Responsibility for Organizational Wrongdoing.- White-Collar Criminogenesis: Structure, Motivation, and Rationalization.- Generative Worlds of White-Collar Crime.- Because They Can.- Critical and Postmodern Approaches to Research.- Researching Corporate and White-Collar Crimeinan Eraof Neo-Liberalism.- An Age of Miracles?.- White-Collar Crime in a Postmodern, Globalized World.- Corporate Crime and State-Corporate Crime.- Corporate Crime.- State-Corporate Crime and Criminological Inquiry.- Legal Perspectives: Theory, Irresponsibility, and Liability.- A Normative Approach to White-Collar Crime.- The Corporation as a Legally Created Site of Irresponsibility.- Preventive Fault and Corporate Criminal Liability: Transforming Corporate Organizations into Private Policing Entities.- Forms of White-Collar Crime.- Gold-Collar Crime.- Environmental Pollution by Corporations in Japan.- Crime in the World of Art.- Computer Crime and White-Collar Crime.- Professional and Occupational White-Collar Crime.- From Pink to White with Various Shades of Embezzlement: Women Who Commit White-Collar Crimes.- The Itching Palm: The Crimes of Bribery and Extortion.- Crimes by Lawyers in Japan and the Responsibilities of Professionals.- Corruption: Narratives, Definitions, and Applications.- Corruption Kills.- On the Comparative Study of Corruption.- Corporate Corruption in the New Economy.- Cesare Beccaria and White-Collar Crimes’ Public Harm.- Case Studies.- The Role of the Mass Media in the Enron Fraud.- Crime? What Crime? Tales of the Collapse ofHIH.- Enron, Lernout & Hauspie, and Parmalat.- White-Collar Crime and Reactions of the Criminal Justice System in the United States and Japan.- Policing White-Collar Crime.- Policing Healthcare at the Dawn of the New Millennium.- Policing Financial Crimes.- Regulation, Prevention, and Control.- Situational Crime Prevention and White-Collar Crime.- “This Time We Really Mean It!”.- White-Collar Crime and Prosecution for “Industrial Manslaughter” as a Means To Reduce Workplace Deaths.- The Punishment of Corporate Crime in China.

The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime is an absolutely superb compilation of articles on white-collar crime and its control. The International Handbook is a truly essential acquisition for any library serving those with an interest in white- collar crime, and no white-collar crime scholar can afford to be without a copy of this volume close at hand. The fifty authors represented here succeed in addressing most if not all of the most important current issues pertaining to white-collar crime and its control. Altogether, this volume is quite certain to influence the scholarly understanding of white-collar crime and its control for years to come, and will long be regarded as a landmark contribution to the field. -David O. Friedrichs, Professor & Distinguished University Fellow, University of Scranton (Pennsylvania, USA) Author of: Trusted Criminals: White-Collar Crime in Contemporary Society 3E (2007)