The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime (Oxford Handbooks)

"The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime offers a comprehensive treatment of the most up-to-date theories and research regarding white-collar crime. Contributors tackle a vast range of topics, including the impact of white-collar crime, the contexts in which it occurs, current crime policies and debates, and examinations of the criminals themselves. The volume concludes with a set of essays that discuss potential responses for controlling white-collar crime, as well as promising new avenues for future research,. Uniting conceptual theories, empirical research, and ethnographic data, this Handbook provides the first unified analytic framework on white-collar crime." -- Inside cover Cover Series The Oxford Handbook of White-​Collar Crime Copyright Contents Preface Contributors 1. Core Themes in the Study of White-​Collar Crime Part I Definitional Debates 2. The Roots and Variant Definitions of the Concept of “White-​Collar Crime” 3. Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Implications of Alternative Definitions of “White-​Collar Crime”: “Trivializing the Lunatic Crime Rate” Part II Impact of White-​Collar Crime 4. What Is Known and What Should Be Known About White-​Collar Crime Victimization? 5. The Costs of White-​Collar Crime Part III Understanding White-​Collar Criminals 6. Who Commits White-​Collar Crime, and What Do We Know About Them? 7. White-​Collar Criminals: Ethnographic Portraits of Their Identities and Decision Making 8. The Pool of Potential White-​Collar Criminals: Whence? 9. Middle-​Class Crime: Moral Economies Between Crime in the Streets and Crime in the Suites 10. Gender Constructions Part IV White-​Collar Crime Across the Life Course 11. Adolescent Precursors of White-​Collar Crime 12. White-​Collar Criminal Participation and the Life Course 13. Developmental Perspectives on White-​Collar Criminality Part V Cultural and Institutional Contexts 14. White-​Collar Crimes of the Financial Crisis 15. Organizational Political Economy and White-​Collar Crime 16. Economic Fluctuations and Crises 17. Cultural Variation Part VI Organizational Context 18. Criminal Decision Making in Organizational Contexts 19. Opportunities for White-​Collar Crime 20. Employee Theft 21. Criminogenic Organizational Properties and Dynamics 22. Organizational Self-​Restraint Part VII Regulatory Oversight 23. Oversight and Rule Making as Political Conflict 24. Regulation: From Traditional to Cooperative 25. Comparing Assumptions Underlying Regulatory Inspection Strategies: Implications for Oversight Policy 26. The Credibility of Oversight and Aggregate Rates of White-​Collar Crime Part VIII Criminal Sanctions 27. Investigating and Prosecuting White-​Collar Criminals 28. Sentencing Respectable Offenders 29. Effects on White-​Collar Defendants of Criminal Justice Attention and Sanctions 30. White-​Collar Crime and Perceptual Deterrence Part IX Public Policy 31. The Practical Challenges of Responding to Corporate Crime 32. Public Opinion and Public Policy on White-​Collar Crime Index Although white-collar crime has caused a substantial amount of damage on both the individual and societal levels, it often ranks below street crime as a matter of public concern. Thus, white-collar crime remains an ambiguous and even controversial topic among academics, with a relative dearth of scholarly focus on the issue. The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime offers a comprehensive treatment of the most up-to-date theories and research regarding white-collar crime. Contributors tackle a vast range of topics, including the impact of white-collar crime, the contexts in which white-collar crime occurs, current crime policies and debates, and examinations of the criminals themselves. The volume concludes with a set of essays that discuss potential responses for controlling white-collar crime, as well as promising new avenues for future research. Uniting conceptual theories, empirical research, and ethnographic data, the Handbook provides the first unified analytic framework on white-collar crime. Given the astronomical aggregate losses to victims, building a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of white-collar crime is a topic of immediate social concern. The definitive resource on white-collar crime, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for developing both intellectual and policy-related solutions. "The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime offers a comprehensive treatment of the most up-to-date theories and research regarding white-collar crime. Contributors tackle a vast range of topics, including the impact of white-collar crime, the contexts in which it occurs, current crime policies and debates, and examinations of the criminals themselves. The volume concludes with a set of essays that discuss potential responses for controlling white-collar crime, as well as promising new avenues for future research,. Uniting conceptual theories, empirical research, and ethnographic data, this Handbook provides the first unified analytic framework on white-collar crime." -- Resum This Handbook brings together the accumulated wisdom of a diverse group of leading scholars on white-collar crime and corporate crime. It begins with an overview of the core themes in the study of white-collar crime. Ensuing chapters explicate the definition of white-collar crime, illuminate the distinguishing demographic, social, and psychological characteristics of white-collar offenders, and carefully dissect the social and economic costs of this form of crime. International in focus, the volume includes incisive analyses of a broad range of white-collar crimes and represents a major advance in white-collar criminology "This Handbook brings together the accumulated wisdom of a diverse group of leading scholars on white-collar crime and corporate crime ... Overall, this volume presents a sophisticated analysis of the multifaceted problem of white-collar crime and white-collar crime control, as well as a comprehensive overview of theory and empirical research in this area."