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This book presents a comprehensive account of European white-collar crime, focusing on its history, methods of measuring its extent, its regulation, governance and enforcement, as well as its specific European character.
The editors have gathered together the leading voices in the field and specific case studies are discusse
List of contents
1. An introduction to white-collar and corporate crime in Europe, W. Huisman, , J. van Erp, G. Vande Walle and J. BeckersPart I Defining and measuring white-collar and corporate crime in Europe2. The measurement of corporate crime: an exercise in futility?, C. Walburg3. Determining the adequate enforcement of white-collar and corporate crimes in Europe, N. Lord and M. Levi4. Charting Europe's moral economies: Citizens, consumers, and the crimes of everyday life, S. Karstedt5. On the Difficulty of Measuring Economic Crime, L. Korsell6. Measuring white-collar crime perceptions among public and white collar offenders: A comparative investigation of four European countries, T. Alalehto and D. LarssonPart II Historical perspectives on white-collar and corporate crime in Europe7. Willem Bonger: the unrecognized European pioneer of the study of white collar crime, P. Hebberecht8. Corporate involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, A. Van Baar9. Special criminal law and inspectorates in Europe, P. PonsaersPart III Contemporary white-collar and corporate crime in EuropeWhite-collar crime in countries of transition10. Economic Crime and the Privatisation of East German Corporations, K. Boers, H. Theile, B. Bischoff, K. Karliczek11. White Collar Crime in Countries of Transition. The Lesson of Hungary, E. Inzelt12. Retroactive prosecution of transitional economic crimes in Croatia. Testing the legal principles and human rights, P. Novoselec, S. Roksandic Vidlicka and A. MaršavelskiDeviance in academia 13. Within our walls: white collar crime in Greek academia, S. Georgoulas and A. VoulvouliEU fraud.../part contents
About the author
Judith van Erp is Professor of Public Institutions at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research addresses corporate compliance and corporate crime. She has published on various public and private modes of regulation and governance of corporate behavior and their intersection, and in particular, on the role of the media and 'naming and shaming' in governing corporate crime. Together with Gudrun Vande Walle and Wim Huisman, she founded and co-chairs the European Working Group on Organizational Crime, a subdivision of the European Society of Criminology. She also co-chairs the Collaborative Research Network on Regulatory Governance of the Law and Society Association.
Wim Huisman specializes in prevalence and causes of corporate and white-collar crime. Recently, he published on corporate crime and economic crisis, corporate involvement in gross human rights violations, environmental crime, food fraud and corporate crime theory. He teaches a course on White-collar Crime in the master's programme in Criminology at VU School of Criminology and is the co-chair of the European Society of Criminology's Working Group on Organizational Crime, as well as editor of the Netherlands Journal of Criminology.
Gudrun Vande Walle has worked on integrity and anti-corruption policy and on victimization and conflict resolution in relation to corporate crime. She recently exchanged academic research for the practice of investigation and prosecution of Economic and Financial crime for the Belgian public prosecutor. Gudrun teaches a course on Governance and Ethics in the Master Public Administration and Public Management at Ghent University and is member of the research unit "Government and Law" at University of Antwerp. She is co-chair of the European Society of Criminology's Working Group on Organizational Crime.
Summary
This book presents a comprehensive account of European white-collar crime, focusing on its history, methods of measuring its extent, its regulation, governance and enforcement, as well as its specific European character. The editors have gathered together the leading voices in the field and specific case studies are discusse
