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As an instructor teaching white collar crime, are you frustrated by texts which leave your students feeling outraged but helpless about the subject? Assigning this new text by Mike Benson and Sally Simpson can successfully address that problem, because it explains to students why white-collar crime is so prevalent and so difficult to control. Using this text, instructors can show students how these crimes are carried out in ways that make them difficult to discover. Instructors can also show how opportunities for white-collar crimes could be reduced if we were to approach the problem from the perspective of situational crime prevention. The authors address the difficulty of controlling white-collar crime in detail, and speculate on the future of white-collar crime in the rapidly globalizing world of trans-national corporations.

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• List of Illustrations(p. vi)
• Series Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. viii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• 1 What Is White-Collar Crime?(p. 1)
• 2 Who Is the White-Collar Offender?(p. 19)
• 3 Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional Criminological Theories(p. 53)
• 4 The Nature of White-Collar Crime: Opportunities And Techniques(p. 75)
• 5 Opportunity and White-Collar Property Crimes(p. 91)
• 6 Opportunity and Corporate Violence(p. 119)
• 7 The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity(p. 137)
• 8 The Social Distribution of Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Class(p. 161)
• 9 Control, Prevention, and Opportunity(p. 183)
• 10 Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime(p. 201)
• Notes(p. 221)
• References(p. 223)
• Index(p. 237)

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CHOICE Review

The big question in evaluating the worth of this concise, well-written, well-conceived book that organizes white-collar crime around the central theme of opportunity theory is in deciding whether there is value added compared to other works in this genre, such as Stephen Rosoff et al.'s Profit without Honor (4th ed., 2007) or David Friedrichs's Trusted Criminals (CH, Sep'96, 34-0627; 3rd ed., 2007). Whereas these two venerable books are very useful in undergraduate courses in white-collar crime and malfeasance, Benson (criminal justice, Univ. of Cincinnati) and Simpson (criminology, Univ. of Maryland) offer richer theoretical depth, as evident in their discussion of the symbolic construction of opportunity (chapter 7). The authors have drawn on an extensive body of research in the field and further the argument of their predecessors that white-collar crime is misunderstood and underexamined. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate and graduate students, researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners. L. L. Hansen University of Massachusetts, Boston

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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.