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White-Collar Crime: A Text/Reader incorporates contemporary and classic readings (some including policy implications) accompanied by original text that provides a theoretical framework and context for students. This comprehensive book covers topics including crimes by workers in sales-oriented systems; crimes in the health care system; crimes by criminal justice professionals and politicians; crimes in the educational system; crimes in the economic and technological systems; crimes by employees in the housing industry; corporate crime; environmental crime; explanations of white-collar crime; and the police and court responses to white-collar crime.

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• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime: a Systems Perspective
• How to Read a Research Article
• Reading:
• 1 Crime and Business
• Section II Understanding White-Collar Crime: Definitions, Extent, and Consequences
• Readings:
• 2 White-Collar and Professional Crime: The Challenge for the 1980s
• 3 Occupational Crime, Occupational Deviance, and Workplace Crime: Sorting Out the Differences
• Section III Crimes in Sales-Related Occupations: a Systems Perspective
• Readings:
• 4 The Appliance Repairman: a Study of Victim-Responsiveness and Fraud
• 5 Employee Theft and Efficacy of Certain Control Procedures in Commercial Food Service Operations
• Section IV Crimes in the Health Care System
• Readings:
• 6 The Enforcement of Criminal Laws: Testimony to the House od Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security
• 7 Illicit Prescription Drug Use Among Pharmacists: Evidence of a Paradox of Familiarity
• Section V. Crime in Systems of Social Control: White-Collar Crime in Criminal Justice, Political, and Religious Systems
• Readings:
• 8 Violated Trust: Conceptualizing Prosecutorial Misconduct
• 9 Uncollaring the Criminal: Understanding the Criminal Careers of Criminal Clerics
• Section VI Crimes in the Educational System
• Readings:
• 10 Intimidating Education: Sexual Harassment in Criminology
• 11 ORI Findings of Scientific Misconduct in Clinical Trials and Publicly Funded Research, 1992-2002
• Section VII Crime in the Economic and Technological Systems
• Readings:
• 12 Insider Trading: The SEC Meets Karl Karcher
• 13 Cybercrime Against Businesses
• Section VIII Crimes in the Housing System
• Readings:
• 12 The Mortgage Meltdown as Normal Accidental Wrongdoing
• 15 2009 Mortgage Fraud Report "Year in Review," by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Section IX Crimes by the Corporate System
• Readings:
• 16 Is Corporate Crime Serious Crime? Criminal Justice and Corporate Crime Control
• 17 Food for Thought: An Investigation of Food and Drug Administration Reporting Practices, 1995-1999
• Section X Environmental Crime
• Readings:
• 18 Corporate Environmental Crimes and Social Inequality: New Directions for Environmental Justice Research
• 19 Crimes Against the Environment: Superfund Enforcement at Last
• Section XI Explaining White-Collar Crime
• Readings:
• 20 Are White-Collar and Common Offenders the Same? An Empirical and Theoretical Critique of a Recently Proposed General Theory of Crime
• 21 Completely Out of Control or the Desire to Be in Control? How Low Self-Control and the Desire for Control Relate to Corporate Offending
• 22 White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Specifying a Trajectory of Punctuated Situational Offending
• Section XII Policing White-Collar Crime
• Readings:
• 23 Documenting Inadequate Care in the Nursing Home: The Story of an Undercover Agent
• 24 Government Whistleblowers: Crime's Hidden Victims
• Section XIII Judicial Proceedings and White-Collar Crime
• Readings:
• 25 Local Prosecutors and Corporate Crime
• 26 Whistleblowing and Lawyers
• Section XIV The Corrections Subsystem and White-Collar Crime
• Readings:
• 27 The Special Sensitivity of White-Collar Offenders to Prison: a Critique and Research Agenda
• 28 "Club Fed" in Japan? Incarceration Experiences of Japanese Embezzlers
• 29 White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Some Preliminary Findings, by David Weisburd, Ellen F. Chayet, and Elin J. Waring
• Glossary
• References
• Credits and Sources
• Index
• About the Author

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Brian K. Payne received his doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993. He is currently the vice provost for academic affairs at Old Dominion University, where he is tenured in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and the chair of the Hampton Roads Cybersecurity Education, Workforce, and Economic Development Alliance. He is a former editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice, past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Payne is the author or coauthor of more than 160 journal articles and seven books including White-Collar Crime: The Essentials (Sage), Family Violence and Criminal Justice (Elsevier, with Randy Gainey), and Crime and Elder Abuse: An Integrated Perspective (Charles C Thomas). He won the local Pinewood Derby when he was in the fourth grade.