White-Collar Crime: The Essentials - Brossura

Payne, Brian K.

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ISBN 10: 1452219931 ISBN 13: 9781452219936

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 2012

Riassunto

White Collar Crime: The Essentials is a comprehensive, yet compact text addresses the most important topics in white collar crime, while allowing for more accessibility through cost. Author Brian Payne provides a theoretical framework and context for students and explores such timely topics as crimes by workers sales oriented systems, crimes in the health care system, crimes by criminal justice professionals and politicians, crimes in the educational system, crimes in the economic and technological systems, corporate crime, environmental crime, and others. This is an easily-supplemented resource for any course that covers white collar crime.

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L'autore

Brian K. Payne received his doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993. He is currently the vice provost for academic affairs at Old Dominion University, where he is tenured in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and the chair of the Hampton Roads Cybersecurity Education, Workforce, and Economic Development Alliance. He is a former editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice, past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Payne is the author or coauthor of more than 160 journal articles and seven books including White-Collar Crime: The Essentials (Sage), Family Violence and Criminal Justice (Elsevier, with Randy Gainey), and Crime and Elder Abuse: An Integrated Perspective (Charles C Thomas). He won the local Pinewood Derby when he was in the fourth grade.

 

Contenuti

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter I: Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime: A Systems Perspective
Chapter II: Understanding White-Collar Crime: Definitions, Extent, and Consequences
Chapter III: Crimes in Sales-Related Occupations: A Systems Perspective
Chapter IV: Crimes in the Health Care System
Chapter V: Crime in Systems of Social Control: White-Collar Crime in Criminal Justice, Political, and Religious Systems
Chapter VI: Crimes in the Educational System
Chapter VII: Crime in the Economic and Technological Systems
Chapter VIII: Crimes in the Housing System
Chapter IX: Crimes by the Corporate System
Chapter X: Environmental Crime
Chapter XI: Explaining White-Collar Crime
Chapter XII: Policing White-Collar Crime
Chapter XIII: Judicial Proceedings and White-Collar Crime
Chapter XIV: The Corrections Subsystem and White-Collar Crime
Glossary
References
Credits and Sources
Index
About the Author

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1452219931
• ISBN 13: 9781452219936
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 453