The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime

Although white-collar crime has caused a substantial amount of damage on both the individual and societal levels, it often ranks below street crime as a matter of public concern. Thus, white-collar crime remains an ambiguous and even controversial topic among academics, with a relative dearth of scholarly focus on the issue.

The Oxford Handbook of White-Collar Crime offers a comprehensive treatment of the most up-to-date theories and research regarding white-collar crime. Contributors tackle a vast range of topics, including the impact of white-collar crime, the contexts in which white-collar crime occurs, current crime policies and debates, and examinations of the criminals themselves. The volume concludes with a set of essays that discuss potential responses for controlling white-collar crime, as well as promising new avenues for future research. Uniting conceptual theories, empirical research, and ethnographic data, the Handbook provides the first unified analytic framework on white-collar crime.

Given the astronomical aggregate losses to victims, building a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of white-collar crime is a topic of immediate social concern. The definitive resource on white-collar crime, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for developing both intellectual and policy-related solutions.

Shanna R. Van Slyke is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Economic Crime and Justice Studies at Utica College, NY.

Michael L. Benson is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

Francis T. Cullen is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati.

1. Core Themes in the Study of White-Collar Crime
Michael L. Benson, Shanna R. Van Slyke, and Francis T. Cullen

PART I: DEFINITIONAL DEBATES
2. The Roots and Variant Definitions of the Concept of "White-Collar Crime"
Gilbert Geis
3. Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Implications of Alternative Definitions of "White-Collar
Crime"
Henry N. Pontell

PART II: IMPACT OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
4. What Is Known and What Should Be Known about White-Collar Crime Victimization?
Hazel Croall
5. The Costs of White-Collar Crime
Mark A. Cohen


PART III: UNDERSTANDING WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS
6. Who Commits White-Collar Crime, and What Do We Know about Them?
Paul M. Klenowski and Kimberly D. Dodson
7. White-Collar Criminals: Ethnographic Portraits of Their Identities and Decision Making
Dean A. Dabney
8. The Pool of Potential White-Collar Criminals: From Whence?
Andy Hochstetler and William Mackey
9. Middle-Class Crime: Moral Economies between Crime in the Streets and Crime in the Suites
Susanne Karstedt
10. Gender Constructions
Mary Dodge

PART IV: WHITE-COLLAR CRIME ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE
11. Adolescent Precursors of White-Collar Crime
Simon I. Singer
12. White-Collar Criminal Participation and the Life Course
Nicole Leeper Piquero and Alex R. Piquero
13. Developmental Perspectives on White-Collar Criminality
Michael L. Benson

PART V: CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS
14. White-Collar Crimes of the Financial Crisis
Spencer Headworth and John L. Hagan
15. Political Economy and White-Collar Crime
Harland Prechel
16. Economic Fluctuations and Crises
Sally S. Simpson and Melissa Rorie
17. Cultural Variation
Susyan Jou, Bill Hebenton, and Lennon Y. C. Chang

PART VI: ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
18. Criminal Decision Making in Organizational Contexts
Edward C. Tomlinson and Amanda Pozzuto
19. Opportunities for White-Collar Crime
Tamara D. Madensen
20. Employee Theft
Jay P. Kennedy
21. Criminogenic Organizational Properties and Dynamics
Wim Huisman
22. Organizational Self-Restraint
Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos and Peter Fleming

PART VII: REGULATORY OVERSIGHT
23. Oversight and Rule Making as Political Conflict
Mary Kreiner Ramirez
24. Regulation: From Traditional to Cooperative
Neil Gunningham
25. Comparing Assumptions Underlying Regulatory Inspection Strategies: Implications for Oversight Policy
Peter Mascini
26. The Credibility of Oversight and Aggregate Rates of White-Collar Crime
Wei Wang and Hongming Cheng

PART VIII: CRIMINAL SANCTIONS
27. Investigating and Prosecuting White-Collar Criminals
Lucian E. Dervan and Ellen S. Podgor
28. Sentencing Respectable Offenders
Michael Levi
29. Effects on White-Collar Defendants of Criminal Justice Attention and Sanctions
Brian K. Payne
30. White-Collar Crime and Perceptual Deterrence
Ray Paternoster and Stephen G. Tibbetts

PART IX: PUBLIC POLICY
31. The Practical Challenges of Responding to Corporate Crime
Peter Cleary Yeager
32. Public Opinion and Public Policy on White-Collar Crime
Shanna R. Van Slyke and Donald J. Rebovich