White-collar Criminal

The Offender in Business and the Professions

Renssalaer Lee, Gilbert Geis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138540521
• eBook ISBN: 9781351299145
• Topic: Sozialwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Kriminologie

In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society that were considered "normal," "affluent," and "well-adjusted". This notion of a new criminal class played havoc with the traditional theories of crime causation and directed considerable research away from the criminal at war with society to the criminal nestled snugly in society's lap. Since then the concept of "white-collar crime" has become even more important for the understanding not only of criminal behavior but of the total social and moral structure of American society as well.White-Collar Criminal brings together, for the first time since the concept was enunciated, the major classic and contemporary writings in this rapidly expanding area of investigation. The book provides a provocative array of studies of the crimes committed on the upper echelons of American life-embezzlement, business theft, consumer fraud, antitrust violations, and many others-as well as the most significant theoretical writings on the subject.The book is both absorbing and intellectually challenging. Teachers seeking to give their students an understanding of this basic segment of criminological thought and research will find this volume a unique combination of empirical data and theoretical analysis in highly readable form.Gilbert Geis is currently professor emeritus in the department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He has been project director on grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Walter E. Meyer Research Institute of Law, and research director of an Office of Economic Opportunity program employing former narcotic addicts in street work with addicts and as classroom assistants in junior high schools. Geis has served as chairman of the section on Crime and Delinquency of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and as secretary-treasurer of the criminology section of the American Sociological Association. He has been a consultant to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice; in this capacity he was responsible for draft statements on white-collar crime and on compensation to victims of violent crime.

Index

Accessory to crime, 46, 63

Adams, Charles Francis, 41

Adams, John, 9-10

Advertising

automobile, 256-257

bait-and-switch, 240, 247

false and misleading claims, 36-37

injurious effects upon consumers and competitors, 303-309

misrepresentation, 42, 58, 60-63, 296-297

powers of FTC to regulate, 296, 301-309, 345

studies of systematic deception, 232-233

television, 296

illusion or deception, 201-209

“sandpaper case,” 296-297, 301-302, 306-308

testimonial, 303

violation of laws, 354, 356, 358-359

Age, of offenders, 339

Ambulance chasing, 44

contingent-fee arrangement, 219

definition, 221

deviation and control within the legal profession, 219-230

insurance companies and, 220, 222-223, 228-229

functional consequences, 222

personal injury solicitation, 221-226

personal injury suits, 219

process of enforcing ethical norms, 226-229

proposed solutions, 229-230

American Cancer Society, 274-275

American Criminal Law Quarterly, 310n

American Journal of Sociology, 159n, 173n, 185n

American Medical Association, 276

investigations of medical quackery, 271-272

American Sociological Review, 71n, 202n, 353n, 365n

American Sociological Society, 2, 21

American Tobacco Company, 65

Anthony, Robert N., 121

Antitrust violations, 16-17, 65-67, 354

heavy electrical equipment cases (1961), 103-118 see also (Electrical equipment antitrust cases)

significance of, 65-68

use of criminal sanctions, 411, 413, 426

Aristotle, 15

Arnold, Thurman, 391

Attachments, of illegal profits of corporate crime, 146-147

Aubert, Vilhelm, 156, 173-184, 337

Authority, attitudes toward, 97

Automobiles, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half title
• title
• copy
• Preface
• Introduction
• I WHAT IS “WHITE-COLLAR CRIME”?
• II CORPORATE AND BUSINESS WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
• III COMMERCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
• IV WHITE-COLLAR EXPLOITATION AND ITS VICTIMS
• V WHITE-COLLAR OFFENSES AND THE LEGAL PROCESS
• VI CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE CONCEPT OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
• Selected References
• Index