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Taylor & Francis Understanding White-Collar Crime An Opportunity Perspective 2015 Edition by Michael L. Benson, Sally S. Simpson
Unlike other books of its kind, Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective uses a coherent theoretical perspective in its coverage of white-collar crime. Using opportunity perspective, or the assumption that all crimes depend on offenders having some sort of opportunity to commit an offense, allows the authors to uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue, without being reductive in their treatment of the topic. With this second edition, Benson and Simpson have greatly expanded their coverage to include new case studies, substantive materials, and an annotated appendix of online resources to make this a core book for courses on white-collar crime. Table of contents :- Part I. An Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime 1. What Is White-Collar Crime 2. Who is the White-Collar Offender Part II Criminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective 3. Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional Criminological Theories 4. Explaining White-Collar Crime: The Opportunity Perspective Part III. Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crimes 5. Financial Crimes in Health Care, Mortgages, Securities, and Markets. 6. Corporate Violence: Environmental and Workplace Offenses Part IV. The Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities 7. The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity: The Neutralization and Normalization of Deviance 8. Social Distribution of Opportunity: Class, Gender, and Race Part V. Control, Prevention and the Future of White-Collar Crime 9. Legal Controls: The Criminal Justice, Regulatory, and Civil Justice Systems 10. Extra-Legal Controls and Situational Prevention of White-Collar Crime 11. Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime