Profit without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America (2nd Edition)

Stephen M. Rosoff; Henry N. Pontell; Robert Tillman

ISBN 10: 0130286850 / ISBN 13: 9780130286857

Edité par Prentice Hall, 2001

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Synopsis :

For courses in American Culture, White Collar Crime, Social Problems, Criminology, and Law & Society.

The second edition of Profit Without Honor discusses and explains various types of white collar crimes in easily understood terms in an engaging and entertaining manner. The nature and extent of these acts are fully documented using academic and popular sources. The text also looks at the damage inflicted upon victims, and the larger society, its institutions and culture as a whole, showing it to be much greater than that of common crime.

À propos de l'auteur:

Stephen M. Rosoff is associate professor of sociology and Director of the Graduate Criminology Program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He received his Ph.D. in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine. He has written extensively on white-collar crime and professional deviance, particularly in the areas of medical fraud and computer crime. He is co-author of two forthcoming books: Contemporary Legal Issues: Whose Rights? Who's Right? (Roxbury Press) and Deviance and Deviants (Prentice Hall).

Henry N. Pontell is professor of criminology, law and society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A widely recognized authority on white-collar crime, including financial institution fraud and crime in the health care industry, and writer in a number of areas of criminology and sociology, in 2001 he received the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Cressey Award for major lifetime contributions to the study, detection and deterrence of fraud. His recent books include: Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis, and Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis.

Robert H. Tillman is associate professor of sociology at St. John's University in New York City. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Davis. He is the author and co-author of several books on white-collar crime, including: Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry (Northeastern University Press, forthcoming); Broken Promises: Fraud by Small Business Health Insurers (Northeastern University Press); and Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (University of California Press).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Profit without Honor: White Collar Crime and...
Éditeur : Prentice Hall
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket
Edition : 2ème Édition