Cloaking White-Collar Crime in Hong Kong''s Property Sector

Informationen zum Autor Yujing Fun has taught and researched at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and for the University of California, Irvine, USA. His academic interests are white-collar crime and comparative criminology. He is especially concerned with issues of social justice. Klappentext Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains how Hong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the prevalence of white collar crime in the city's property sector. Zusammenfassung Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains how Hong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the prevalence of white collar crime in the city's property sector. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: White Collar Crime - Where Is It?1. No Smoking Gun: Methodology in the Uncovering of White-Collar Crime2. Against White-Collar Crime3. Here We Go Again: What is White-Collar Crime?4. Hong Kong's Surreal Estate: Hong Kong and its Property Sector5. Tokyo Connection: Comparative Insights for Hong Kong from Japanocentric Crime Theories6. Hong Kong! Power! and White-Collar Crime Discourse

Product details

• Authors: Yujing Fun
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137506764
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50676-4
• No. of pages: 209
• Series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia; Palgrave Advances in Criminolo; Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Social Inequality, Criminology, Social & ethical issues, Ethnicity, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social groups and identities, Social Structure, Crime & criminology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general