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Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crime examines the current state of knowledge about and debate over white-collar crime. One of the most challenging and controversial topics in sociology, white-collar crime differs fundamentally from street crime because those who commit it typically lead lives of privilege. Written by top scholars in the field, the thirty-one selections in this book include both previously published works as well as original papers. All have been significantly edited for readability and suitability for students. Organized by rational-choice theory, the readings examine the nature and sources of white-collar crime opportunities, the characteristics of white-collar offenders, white-collar criminal decision-making processes, and diverse approaches to controlling white-collar crime. Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crime also includes twenty-one panels chosen or prepared specifically to illustrate issues discussed in the readings. Taken primarily from local and regional newspapers or from exemplary studies of white-collar crime, some panels summarize key research on the topic while others show that a great deal of white-collar crime occurs close to home; white-collar crime is not a problem confined to Washington, D.C., to Wall Street, or to the world's largest corporations. Crimes of Privilege: Readings in White-Collar Crime provides students with a critical overview of issues and problems in white-collar crime. It is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on deviance, social problems, and white-collar crime.

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• Preface
• 1 Conceptual Issues and Skirmishes
• Introduction
• White-Collar Criminality
• Is ""White-Collar Crime"" Crime?
• Collaring the Crime, Not the Criminal: Reconsidering the Concept of White-Collar Crime
• Organizational Crime
• Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations
• 2 Victims and Costs
• Introduction
• The Neglected Victims and Unexamined Costs of White-Collar Crime
• Personal Fraud and Its Victims
• White-Collar Crime Victimization
• Consequences of Victimization by White-Collar Crime
• Victims of Fraud: Comparing Victims of White-Collar and Violent Crime
• 3 White-Collar Criminal Opportunities
• Introduction
• ""Heads I WIn, Tails You Lose"": Deregulation, Crime, and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry
• From Fiddle Factors to Networks of Collusion: Charting the Waters of Small Business Crime
• Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior
• Opportunity and Crime in the Medical Profession
• Fire in Hamlet: A Case Study of a State-Corporate Crime
• 4 Decision Making
• Introduction
• Poverty of Theory in Corporate Crime Research
• A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime
• Organizational Culture and Organizational Crime
• Profits, Pressure, and Corporate Law-Breaking
• Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations
• 5 Sources and Characteristics of White-Collar Offenders
• Introduction
• Who Is the White-Collar Criminal?
• Gender and Varieties of White-Collar Crime
• Corporate Control, Crime, and Compensation: An Examination of Large Corporations
• Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior
• Characteristics and Sources of White-Collar Crime
• Competition and Motivation to White-Collar Crime
• 6 Controlling White-Collar Crime?
• Introduction
• On Theory and Action for Corporate Crime Control
• Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Problems and Constraints
• Corporate Crime and Criminal Justice System Capacity: Government Response to Financial Institution Fraud
• An Evolving Compliance Model for Tax Enforcement
• Cooperative Models and Corporate Crime: Panacea or Cop-Out?

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Neal Shover is at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. John Paul Wright is at East Tennessee State University.