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Informationen zum Autor Hazel Croall is Professor of Criminology at Glasgow Caledonian University where she has been responsible for setting up the Criminology Degree in the School of Law and Social Sciences. She is the author and/or co-author of texts on Criminal Justice in England and Wales and Crime and Society in Britain. Her research interests lie in the area of white collar and corporate crime and she has published widely in this area and is the author of Understanding White Collar Crime for Open University Press. Most recently she has served as a member of the Scottish Executive Expert Group on corporate homicide. She has also been involved with the British Society of Criminology! and currently serves on the Advisory Committee and on the Benchmarking Group. Klappentext Corporate Crime examines key themes in the study of corporate crime, exploring how it is defined, legally constructed, researched and controlled. It also looks at case studies of its many forms. It contains a selection of the classic literature on the subject along with a range of contemporary writing. Volume One: Issues of Definition, Construction and Research looks at the definition of corporate crime, and how it is legally constructed and publicly represented. Volume Two: Cases and Explanations focuses on research on the many different forms of corporate crime, and how it has been analyzed by criminologists. Volume Three: Controlling Corporate Crime includes an exploration of regulation and sanctioning along with new approaches. Each volume is prefaced by an introduction which sets out the main themes and contextualizes the selections. Zusammenfassung This essential criminology reference explores important topics in the analysis of corporate crime! examining how the area is characterised legally assembled! researched and managed. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME 1: Part One: Definitions Is ¿white collar crime¿ Crime? - Edwin H. Sutherland Who is the Criminal? - Paul W. Tappan Towards a Sociology of Organisational Crime - Laura S. Schraeger and James F. Short State - Corporate Crime in a Globalized World: Myth or major challenge? - David O. Friedrichs Part Two: Historical Aspects and the Development of Legislation Historical Perspectives - Gilbert Geis Daniel Defoe and Business Crime - Vincenzo Ruggiero White Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial fraud and business morality 1845-1929 - Robb George Conventionalisation of Early Factory Crime - W.G. Carson The Regulatory Dance: Understanding reform processes in corporate crime - Laureen Snider Part Three: Legal Constructions and Issues The Duality of Corporate and Individual Criminal Liability - Brent Fisse Cry in the Dark: Corporate manslaughter and cultural meaning - Celia Wells Corporate Criminality: Four models of fault - James Gobert The Punishment of Corporate Crime in China - Ling Zhang and Lin Zhao t Four: Corporate Crime in the Media Newspaper Coverage of Corporate Price-fixing - Sandra S. Evans and Richard J.Lundman The Social Construction of Corporate Violence: Media coverage of the Imperial Food Products Fire - John P. Wright, Francis T. Cullen and Michael B. Blankenship The Media, the Politics of Truth and the Coverage of Corporate Vviolence: The Westray Disaster and the Public inquiry - John McMullan and Melissa McClung Part Five: Counting the Cost: Researching and Victimisation Dirty Business: Exploring corporate misconduct - Maurice Punch Official Statistics and Hidden Crimes: Researching health and safety crimes - Steve Tombs The Victims of White-Collar Crime - Hazel Croall Transnational White Collar Crime: Some explorations of victimization impact - Mike Levi Theoretical Perspectives on the Corporate Victimization of Women - Sally S. Simpson a...
