White-Collar and Corporate Crime - A Documentary and Reference Guide (Hardcover, New)

This reference guide documents white-collar crimes by individuals and businesses over the past 150 years, offering the most comprehensive array of documents and interpretations available. From Gilded Age railroad scandals to the muckraking period and from the Savings and Loan debacle to corporate fallout during the recent economic meltdown, some individuals and companies have chosen to take the low road to achieve "the American dream." While these offenders throughout modern history may have lacked ethics, morals, or good judgment, they certainly were not wanting in terms of creativity. White-Collar and Corporate Crime: A Documentary and Reference Guide traces the fascinating history of white-collar and corporate criminal behavior from the 1800s through the 2010 passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform measure. Author Gilbert Geis scrutinizes more than a century of episodes involving corporate corruption and other self-serving behaviors that violate antitrust laws, bribery statutes, and fraud laws. The various attempts made by authorities to rein in greed and the methods employed by wrongdoers to evade these controls are also discussed and evaluated. Provides dozens of court documents, legislative hearing transcripts, muckraking articles, and accounts of crooked behavior in the upper echelons of power Contains numerous photographs that illustrate the subject material Includes a bibliography in each section that directs readers to supplementary sources

General

Imprint:	Greenwood Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Documentary and Reference Guides
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Gilbert Geis
Dimensions:	279 x 216 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	351
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-38054-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
LSN:	0-313-38054-6
Barcode:	9780313380549

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