The Criminology of White-Collar Crime

233 Pages·2009·3.258 MB·English

by  Sally S. Simpson, David Weisburd (auth.), Sally S. Simpson, David Weisburd (eds.)

Sally S. Simpson
David Weisburd
Editors
The Criminology
of White-Collar
Crime
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The Criminology of White-Collar Crime
The Criminology
of White-Collar Crime
Sally S. Simpson
Editor
UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark, MD
David Weisburd
Editor
HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem,Israel; George MasonUniversity,
Manassas,VA
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Editors
SallyS.Simpson DavidWeisburd
UniversityofMaryland HebrewUniversity
CollegePark,MD Jerusalem,Israel
[email protected] GeorgeMasonUniversity
Manassas,VA
[email protected]
ISBN978-0-387-09501-1 e-ISBN978-0-387-09502-8
DOI10.1007/978-0-387-09502-8
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Contents
PartI TheoreticalPerspectivesonCrime
Introduction ....................................................... 3
SallyS.SimpsonandDavidWeisburd
Understanding“Criminogenic”CorporateCulture:WhatWhite-Collar
Crime Researchers Can Learn from Studies of the Adolescent
Employment–CrimeRelationship .................................... 15
RobertApelandRaymondPaternoster
GeneralStrainTheoryandWhite-CollarCrime ....................... 35
RobertAgnew,NicoleLeeperPiquero,andFrancisT.Cullen
PartII EmergentThemesandMethodologicalIssues
Persistent Heterogeneity or State Dependence? An Analysis
ofOccupationalSafetyandHealthActViolations ...................... 63
SallyS.SimpsonandNatalieSchell
White-CollarCrimesandtheFearofCrime:AReview ................. 79
MichaelLevi
The Role ofOrganizationalStructure in the Controlof Corporate
CrimeandTerrorism ...............................................111
LauraDuganandCaroleGibbs
GlobalizationandWhite-CollarCrime ...............................129
PeterGrabosky
DevelopmentalTrajectoriesofWhite-CollarCrime ....................153
NicoleLeeperPiqueroandDavidWeisburd
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PartIII CrimePreventionandControl
White-CollarCrimefromanOpportunityPerspective..................175
MichaelL.Benson,TamaraD.Madensen,andJohnE.Eck
Self-RegulatoryApproachestoWhite-CollarCrime:TheImportance
ofLegitimacyandProceduralJustice.................................195
TomR.Tyler
Index .............................................................217
Contributors
RobertAgnew DepartmentofSociology,1555DickeyDrive,EmoryUniversity,
Atlanta,GA30322,USA
RobertApel SchoolofCriminalJustice,UniversityatAlbany,SUNY135Western
Avenue,Albany,NY,USA
MichaelL.Benson UniversityofCincinnati,Cincinnati,OH,USA
FrancisT.Cullen UniversityofCincinnati,Cincinnati,OH,USA
LauraDugan DepartmentofCriminologyandCriminalJustice,TheUniversity
ofMaryland,CollegePark,MD,USA
JohnE.Eck UniversityofCincinnati,Cincinnati,OH,USA
Carole Gibbs School of Criminal Justice and Department of Fisheries
andWildlife,MichiganStateUniversity,EastLansing,MI488,USA
PeterGrabosky ARCCentreofExcellenceinPolicingandSecurity,Regulatory
InstitutionsNetwork,ResearchSchoolofPacificandAsianStudies,Australian
NationalUniversity,Australia
MichaelLevi CardiffUniversity,Wales,UK
TamaraD.Madensen UniversityofNevada-LasVegas,LasVegas,Nevada,USA
Raymond Paternoster Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
UniversityofMaryland,2220LeFrakHall,CollegePark,MD,USA
NicoleLeeperPiquero VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,Richmond,VA,USA
NatalieSchell DepartmentofCriminologyandCriminalJusticeattheUniversity
ofMaryland/CollegePark,MD,USA
Sally S. Simpson Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the
UniversityofMaryland/CollegePark,MD,USA
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Tom R. Tyler Departmentof Psychology,New York University, New York,
NY,USA
David Weisburd The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; George Mason
University,Manassas,VA,USA
About the Authors
RobertAgnewisSamuelCandlerDobbsProfessorofSociologyandChairofthe
SociologyDepartmentat Emory University.He has published four booksand ap-
proximately70articlesonthecausesofcrimeanddelinquency,withhismostrecent
booksbeing JuvenileDelinquency:CausesandControl (OxfordUniversityPress,
2009),WhyDoTheyDoIt?AGeneralTheoryofCrime andDelinquency(Oxford
UniversityPress,2005),andPressuredIntoCrime:AnOverviewofGeneralStrain
Theory(OxfordUniversityPress, 2006).He is bestknownforhisdevelopmentof
generalstraintheory,oneoftheleadingtheoriesofcrimeanddelinquency.Hehas
servedasAssociate Editorof TheoreticalCriminologyandontheeditorialboards
ofCriminology,SocialForces,andotherjournals.Hehasbeenactiveinmanypro-
fessionalorganizationsandgroupsdealingwithcrimeanddelinquency.Andheisa
FellowoftheAmericanSocietyofCriminology.
Robert Apel received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2004 and is
currently Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University
at Albany, State University of New York. His research interests include employ-
mentandlabormarkets,incarcerationandreentry,violenceandinjury,andapplied
econometrics.HeisthePrincipalInvestigatorofagrantfromtheNationalInstitute
of Justice to study the causal impact of first-time incarceration on life outcomes
in late adolescence and early adulthood. His recent publications appear in Crimi-
nology,Crime andDelinquency,JournalofQuantitativeCriminology,andJustice
Quarterly.
MichaelL.BensonisProfessorofCriminalJusticeattheUniversityofCincinnati.
Writingmainlyintheareasofwhite-collarandcorporatecrime,hehaspublishedin
numerousjournals,includingCriminology,Justice Quarterly, JournalofResearch
and Delinquency, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology,
andSocialProblems. HereceivedtheOutstandingScholarshipAwardoftheSoci-
etyfortheStudyofSocialProblemsDivisiononCrimeandJuvenileDelinquency
forhiscoauthoredbook,CombatingCorporateCrime:LocalProsecutorsatWork.
Hismostrecentbookis CorporateCrime UnderAttack:The Fightto Criminalize
BusinessViolence. WithSallySimpson,heiscurrentlycompletingabookonwhite-
collarcrimefromanopportunityperspectiveforRoutledge.
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FrancisT.CullenisDistinguishedResearchProfessorofCriminalJusticeandSo-
ciology at the University of Cincinnati. His works include Reaffirming Rehabili-
tation, Combating Corporate Crime, Corporate Crime Under Attack, Rethinking
Crime and Deviance Theory, Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory,
Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, and Criminological Theory:
Past to Present—Essential Readings. His current research focuses on the impact
ofsocialsupportoncrime,themeasurementofsexualvictimization,publicopinion
aboutcrimecontrol,andrehabilitationasacorrectionalpolicy.HeisaPastPresident
ofboththeAmericanSocietyofCriminologyandtheAcademyofCriminalJustice
Sciences.
Laura Dugan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and
Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. She is an active member of the
NationalCenterfortheStudyofTerrorismandtheResponsetoTerrorism,theNa-
tional Consortium on Violence Research, and the Maryland Population Research
Center. Her research examines the consequences of violence and the efficacy of
violenceprevention/interventionpolicyandpractice.Shealsodesignsmethodolog-
icalstrategiestoovercomedatalimitationsinherentinthesocialsciences.Shehas
written several articles on terrorism, victimization, policy, and methods that have
appearedinjournalssuchasCriminology,TerrorismandPoliticalViolence,Urban
Studies, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, and
Law & Society Review. Professor Dugan received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and
ManagementfromCarnegieMellonUniversityin1999,aMastersinStatisticsfrom
CarnegieMellonin1998,andaMastersinManagementandPublicPolicyin1995.
John E. Eck is a crime scientist at the University of Cincinnati, where he is a
professor in the Division of Criminal Justice. With Lin Liu he coedited Artificial
Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Informa-
tion System, the first book on the simulation of crime patterns. And with Ronald
V. Clarke, he is the coauthor of Crime Analysis for Problem Solvers, a manual
for police officials on how to prevent crime. Eck received his doctorate from the
University of Maryland in 1994, and a master’s degree in public policy from the
University of Michigan in 1977. From 1977 to 1994, he directed research at the
PoliceExecutiveResearchForum,inWashington,D.C.Eckhaswrittenextensively
on problem-orientedpolicing,crime mapping,drugmarkets, computersimulation
ofcrimepatterns,andcrimeprevention.HewasamemberoftheNationalAcademy
ofSciencesCommitteeonPolicePolicyandResearchandisajudgefortheBritish
Home Office’s Tilley Award for Problem-SolvingExcellence. He is the author of
numerous articles on policing, crime mapping and analysis, evaluation methods,
andcrimesimulation.
Carole Gibbs is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University with a joint
appointmentintheSchoolofCriminalJusticeandtheDepartmentofFisheriesand
Wildlife.ShereceivedherMastersandPh.D.inCriminologyandCriminalJustice
fromtheUniversityofMaryland,CollegeParkandherbachelorsinCriminalJustice