In an environment where corporate scandals fill the headlines and ethics courses have suddenly become standard fare in business schools, Terry Leap offers welcome insights into and useful ways of thinking about a critical problem that permeates our society. His main contribution is an integrative mo
White collar crime
โ Scribed by Goff, Colin; Sutherland, Edwin Hardin; Geis, Gilbert
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 325
- Edition
- Uncut version.
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
"A classic study of corporate crime in America, now available for the first time the Sutherland originally wrote it -- with names and case studies of the offenders included."--Back cover.
โฆ Table of Contents
List of tables --
Introduction: Gilbert Geis and Colin Goff --
Part I/Introduction. The problem of white collar crime --
Part II/Records of seventy large corporations. The statistical record --
Three case histories --
Is "white collar crime" crime? --
Restraint of trade --
Rebates --
Patents, trademarks, and copyrights --
Misrepresentation in advertising --
Unfair labor practices --
Financial manipulations --
War crimes --
Miscellaneous violations of laws --
Part III/Public utility corporations. Records of fifteen power and light corporations --Part IV/Interpretation. White collar crime as organized crime --
A theory of white collar crime --
Variations in the crimes of corporations --
Notes --
Index.
โฆ Subjects
White collar crimes -- United States -- History;Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States;Corporations -- Corrupt practices;White collar crimes;United States;United States -- White-collar crimes, to 1946
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