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An overview of white collar crime begins by introducing the concept, looking at its definition, its identification with class and status, and its development within criminology. The problems of estimating the vast extent of white collar and corporate crime are explored, and some of its major forms are outlined, including fraud, corruption, employment, consumer and environmental crime. The author looks at the kinds of offenders who are convicted for white collar offences and at patterns of victimization which involve class, gender and age. She examines the various ways in which white collar crime has been explained and analysed, including individual, organizational and social structural perspectives. The issues surrounding regulation and punishment are explored, focusing on the contrast between white collar and other crimes, and on alternative approaches to its control.

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• Series editor's foreword(p. ix)
• Acknowledgements(p. xi)
• 1 Conceptualizing white collar crime(p. 1)
• White collar crime and criminology(p. 2)
• What is white collar crime?(p. 6)
• Are white collar crimes distinct from other crimes?(p. 8)
• Varieties of white collar crime(p. 11)
• Is white collar crime, crime?(p. 13)
• Researching white collar crime(p. 14)
• Concluding comments(p. 17)
• Further reading(p. 18)
• 2 Exposing white collar crime(p. 20)
• 'Counting' the uncountable: quantifying white collar crime(p. 21)
• Patterns of white collar crime(p. 24)
• Theft at work(p. 25)
• Fraud(p. 26)
• Fraud in the public sector(p. 27)
• Fraud in the NHS(p. 28)
• 'Euro frauds'(p. 28)
• Tax fraud(p. 29)
• Pensions 'misselling'(p. 30)
• Corruption(p. 31)
• Corruption in local authorities(p. 32)
• Public sector corruption(p. 32)
• Political corruption(p. 33)
• Corruption in commercial organizations(p. 33)
• Employment offences(p. 34)
• Occupational health and safety(p. 35)
• Consumer offences(p. 36)
• Car safety(p. 37)
• 'Cowboy' builders(p. 37)
• Pricing offences(p. 37)
• Marketing malpractice(p. 38)
• Deceptive packaging(p. 38)
• Counterfeit goods(p. 38)
• Food offences(p. 39)
• Food frauds(p. 39)
• Food labelling offences(p. 40)
• Food poisoning(p. 40)
• Environmental crime(p. 40)
• Waste dumping(p. 41)
• Pollution(p. 41)
• Concluding comments(p. 42)
• Further reading(p. 43)
• 3 White collar offenders(p. 45)
• Representations of the white collar offender(p. 47)
• Crimes of the powerless and powerful? Social status and respectability(p. 49)
• Elite offenders(p. 50)
• Crimes of the middle classes(p. 51)
• Crimes of white collar workers(p. 51)
• The corporate offenders(p. 52)
• 'Petty bourgeois' and small business offenders(p. 52)
• 'Entrepreneurs and mavericks'(p. 53)
• 'Rogue' and 'cowboy' businesses(p. 53)
• Crimes of white, middle-class older men? Gender, age, race and white collar crime(p. 54)
• Gender(p. 54)
• Age(p. 56)
• Race(p. 57)
• Class bias and law enforcement? Accounting for the distribution of offenders(p. 57)
• Concluding comments(p. 60)
• Further reading(p. 61)
• 4 White collar crime and victimization(p. 62)
• Constructing white collar victimization(p. 63)
• Exposing the impact of white collar crime(p. 65)
• Direct, individual victimization(p. 65)
• Communities and the quality of life(p. 67)
• Institutional and organizational victimization(p. 67)
• National and global impact(p. 68)
• Who are the victims of white collar crime? Gender, age, class and victimization(p. 68)
• Victimization and gender(p. 69)
• Gender and physical victimization(p. 69)
• Gender and economic harms(p. 71)
• Age and victimization(p. 72)
• Age and physical victimization(p. 72)
• Age and economic harms(p. 73)
• Socioeconomic status, cultural capital and victimization(p. 74)
• Victim responses to white collar crime(p. 76)
• Concluding comments(p. 78)
• Further reading(p. 78)
• 5 Explaining white collar crime(p. 79)
• General theories of crime(p. 81)
• 'Rotten apples in the barrel': individualizing white collar crime(p. 83)
• 'The buck stops here': criminogenic organizations?(p. 85)
• Organizational pathology(p. 85)
• Criminogenic occupations and organizations(p. 86)
• The search for profits(p. 87)
• Organizational cultures(p. 88)
• Individuals and organizations(p. 89)
• Social structure: 'the needy and the greedy'(p. 91)
• Cultural sources of white collar crime(p. 94)
• Is white collar crime endemic to capitalism?(p. 97)
• Concluding comments(p. 100)
• Further reading(p. 101)
• 6 Regulating white collar crime: law and policing(p. 102)
• The development of regulation(p. 104)
• White collar law enforcement(p. 108)
• Prosecution as a 'last resort'(p. 108)
• Compliance strategies(p. 109)
• Out of court settlements(p. 109)
• Cost-effectiveness(p. 110)
• Who is prosecuted?(p. 110)
• Issues in regulatory enforcement(p. 112)
• Criminalization, regulation and self-regulation(p. 117)
• Concluding comments(p. 119)
• Further reading(p. 121)
• 7 Regulating white collar crime: punishment(p. 122)
• White collar sentences: slaps on the wrist?(p. 123)
• Understanding sentencing(p. 126)
• The seriousness of offences(p. 129)
• Characteristics of offenders(p. 129)
• Class, status and sentencing(p. 131)
• White collar crime and punishment(p. 132)
• Deterring white collar crime(p. 133)
• 'Just deserts' for white collar offenders(p. 134)
• Rehabilitating white collar offenders(p. 134)
• Incapacitating white collar offenders(p. 135)
• 'Shaming' white collar offenders(p. 135)
• Alternative approaches to sentencing white collar offenders(p. 136)
• Monetary penalties(p. 136)
• Community sentences for white collar offenders?(p. 138)
• Shaming strategies(p. 139)
• Incapacitation(p. 139)
• Concluding comments(p. 140)
• Further reading(p. 142)
• 8 White collar crime and criminology(p. 143)
• The concept of white collar crime(p. 144)
• One law for the rich? Class, power and the role of criminal law(p. 149)
• Criminology and white collar crime(p. 152)
• Glossary(p. 160)
• References(p. 164)
• Index(p. 175)

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Hazel Croall is currently Senior Lecturer and Head of Division of Sociology at Strathclyde University.