Fraud: Organization, Motivation and Control, Volumes I and II Volume I The Extent and Causes of White-Collar Crime Volume II The Social, Administrative and Criminal Control of Fraud

Contents: Volume I: The Extent and Causes of White-Collar Crime. Patterns of Fraud Victimisation: Insurance fraud, Michael Clarke; Organised cross-Atlantic crime: racketeering in fuels, Petrus van Duyne and Alan A. Block; Abuse of the corporate form: reflections from the bottom of the harbour, Arie Frieberg; Transaction systems and unlawful organizational behavior, Diane Vaughan; Credit and cheque card fraud: some victim survey data and their implications, Michael Levi; Designing crime: the short life expectancy and the workings of a recent wave of credit card bank frauds, Pierre Tremblay; Counterfeiting credit cards, François Mativat and Pierre Tremblay; Organizing plastic fraud: enterprise criminals and side-stepping of fraud prevention, Michael Levi; Small business: white collar villains or victims?, Adam Sutton and Ronald Wild; On cooling the mark out: some aspects of adaptation to failure, Erving Goffman; Victimization of persons by fraud, Richard M. Titus, Fred Heinzelmann and John M. Boyle; Long-term consequences of victimization by white-collar crime, Neil Shover, Greer Litton Fox and Michael Mills. Explaining Involvement in Fraud: From fiddle factors to networks of collusion: charting the waters of small business crime, Hugh D. Barlow; The criminal violation of financial trust, Donald R. Cressey; The heavy electrical equipment antitrust cases of 1961, Gilbert Geis; Embezzlement without problems, Gwynn Nettler; White-collar crime and the study of embezzlement, Gary S. Green; Crime at work: the social construction of amateur property theft, Stuart Henry and Gerald Mars; Motivations and criminal careers of long-term fraudsters, Michael Levi; Denying the guilty mind: accounting for involvement in white-collar crime, Michael L. Benson; Selling hope, selling risk: some lessons for law from behavioural economics about stockbrokers and sophisticated customers, Donald C. Langevoort; The problems of white-collar crime motivation, Stanton Wheeler; Specific deterrence in a sample of offenders convicted of white-collar crimes, David Weisburd, Elin Waring and Ellen Chayet; Are white-collar and common offenders the same? And empirical and theoretical critique of a recently proposed general theory of crime, Michael L. Benson and Elizabeth Moore; Organizational offending and neoclassical criminology: challenging the reach of a general theory of crime, Gary E. Reed and Peter Cleary Yeager; Clarifying the reach of a general theory of crime for organizational offending: a comment on Reed and Yeager, Carey Herbert, Gary S. Green and Victor Larragoite; Of corporate persons and straw men: a reply to Herbert, Green and Larragoite; Name index. Volume II: The Social, Administrative and Criminal Control of Fraud. Perceptions of Fraud: Crime and the average American, John Braithwaite; White-collar criminals, Ezra Stotland; The myth of community tolerance toward white-collar crime, Peter Grabosky, John Braithwaite and Paul Wilson; The Yale white-collar crime project: a review and critique, David Johnson and Richard Leo; The social control of impersonal trust, Susan Shapiro; The idea of criminal deception, Tony Smith. Regulating Fraud: Administrative and Criminal Justice: The state and white-collar crime: saving the savings and loans, Kitty Calavita and Henry Pontell; Giving creditors the business: the criminal law in inaction, Michael Levi; White collar crime, shamelessness and disintegration: the control of tax evasion in Pakistan, Michael Levi and Shoaib Suddle; Practitioner fraud and abuse in medical benefit programmes: government regulation and professional white-collar crime, Henry Pontell, Paul Jesilow and Gilbert Geis; Regulating risky business: dilemmas in security regulation, Nancy Reichman; The road not taken: the elusive path to criminal prosecution for white-collar offenders, Susan Shapiro; The changing FBI: the road to ABSCAM, James Q. Wilson; 'Club Fed' and the sentencing of white-collar offenders before and after Watergate, John Hagan and Alberto Palloni; The reputational penalty firms bear from committing criminal fraud, J. Karpoff and J. Lott; Sentencing white-collar crime in the dark? Reflections on the Guinness Four, Michael Levi; Class, status and the punishment of white-collar criminals, Stanton Wheeler; Name index.

Biography

Michael Levi

’...this book is a powerful review of the literature on white-collar crime research...an invaluable asset to those desiring more information on what is known as white-collar crime.’ Law and Politics