
- 376 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This reference guide documents white-collar crimes by individuals and businesses over the past 150 years, offering the most comprehensive array of documents and interpretations available. From Gilded Age railroad scandals to the muckraking period and from the Savings and Loan debacle to corporate fallout during the recent economic meltdown, some individuals and companies have chosen to take the low road to achieve "the American dream." While these offenders throughout modern history may have lacked ethics, morals, or good judgment, they certainly were not wanting in terms of creativity. White-Collar and Corporate Crime: A Documentary and Reference Guide traces the fascinating history of white-collar and corporate criminal behavior from the 1800s through the 2010 passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform measure. Author Gilbert Geis scrutinizes more than a century of episodes involving corporate corruption and other self-serving behaviors that violate antitrust laws, bribery statutes, and fraud laws. The various attempts made by authorities to rein in greed and the methods employed by wrongdoers to evade these controls are also discussed and evaluated.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Reader’s Guide to Related Documents and Sidebars
- Preface
- 1. What is White-Collar and Corporate Crime?
- 2. The Robber Barons
- 3. The Muckrakers
- 4. Antitrust Crimes
- 5. Major Scandals and Scams: 1864–1993
- 6. Insider Trading and Related Crimes
- 7. Government White-Collar Crimes
- 8. White-Collar Crime in the Professions
- 9. Environmental and Consumer Crimes
- 10. The Enron Decade of Corporate Debacles
- 11. Outdoing Ponzi: Bernie Madoff, R. Allen Stanford, and Boss Jezda
- 12. The Great Economic Meltdown: 2007–2009
- 13. Doing Something about it
- Selected Resources: Bibliography
- Index