International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime

The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime Edited by Henry N. Pontell, University of California, Irvine Gilbert Geis, University of California, Irvine Insider trading. Savings and loan scandals. Enron. Corporate crimes were once though

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International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime Edited by

Henry N. Pontell University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA

and

Gilbert Geis University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA

Henry N. Pontell Department of Criminology, Law and Society School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-7080 USA [email protected]

Gilbert Geis Department of Criminology, Law and Society School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-7080 USA [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006925856 ISBN-10: 0-387-34110-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-34110-1

e-ISBN-10: 0-387-34111-0 e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-34111-8

Printed on acid-free paper.  C

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For Miho and Dolores And in memory of Michelle Smith Pontell and Robley Elizabeth Geis

Contents

Preface Acknowledgments I.

2. Understanding Corporate Lawbreaking: From Profit Seeking to Law Finding Peter Cleary Yeager 3. Attributing Responsibility for Organizational Wrongdoing Matthew T. Lee and Jeannine A. Gailey

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White-Collar Criminogenesis: Structure, Motivation, and Rationalization 1. Generative Worlds of White-Collar Crime Neal Shover 2. Because They Can: Motivations and Intent of White-Collar Criminals James Gobert and Maurice Punch

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Introduction: Theoretical Issues in Organizational and Corporate Lawbreaking 1. Beyond Macro- and Micro-Levels of Analysis, Organizations, and the Cultural Fix Diane Vaughan

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Critical and Postmodern Approaches to Research 1. Researching White-Collar and Corporate Crime in an Era of Neo-Liberalism Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte

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2. An Age of Miracles? Frank Pearce

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3. White-Collar Crime in a Postmodern, Globalized World David O. Friedrichs

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Corporate Crime and State-Corporate Crime 1. Corporate Crime Amitai Etzioni with Derek Mitchell

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2. State-Corporate Crime and Criminological Inquiry Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer

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Legal Perspectives: Theory, Irresponsibility, and Liability 1. A Normative Approach to White-Collar Crime Stuart P. Green 2. The Corporation as a Legally Created Site of Irresponsibility Harry Glasbeek 3. Preventive Fault and Corporate Criminal Liability: Transforming Corporate