White-Collar Crime

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.

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments SECTION I. Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime: A Systems Perspective How to Read a Research Article Reading: 1. Crime and Business, by Edwin H. Sutherland SECTION II. Understanding White-Collar Crime: Definitions, Extent, and Consequences Readings: 2. White-Collar and Professional Crime: The Challenge for the 1980s, by Herbert Edelhertz 3. Occupational Crime, Occupational Deviance, and Workplace Crime: Sorting Out the Differences, by David O. Friedrichs SECTION III. Crimes in Sales-Related Occupations: A Systems Perspective Readings: 4. The Appliance Repairman: A Study of Victim-Responsiveness and Fraud, by Diane Vaughan and Giovanna Carlo 5. Employee Theft and Efficacy of Certain Control Procedures in Commercial Food Service Operations, by Richard Ghiselliand Joseph A. Ismail SECTION IV. Crimes in the Health Care System Readings: 6. The Enforcement of Criminal Laws: Testimony to the House od Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, by James Frogue 7. Illicit Prescription Drug Use Among Pharmacists: Evidence of a Paradox of Familiarity, by Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger SECTION V. Crime in Systems of Social Control: White-Collar Crime in Criminal Justice, Political, and Religious Systems Readings: 8. Violated Trust: Conceptualizing Prosecutorial Misconduct, by Heather Schoenfeld 9. Uncollaring the Criminal: Understanding the Criminal Careers of Criminal Clerics, by Alex R. Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Karen J. Terry, Tasha Youstin, and Matt Nobles SECTION VI. Crimes in the Educational System Readings: 10. Intimidating Education: Sexual Harassment in Criminology, by Elizabeth A. Stanko 11. ORI Findings of Scientific Misconduct in Clinical Trials and Publicly Funded Research, 1992-2002, by Sandra M. Reynolds SECTION VII. Crime in the Economic and Technological Systems Readings: 12. Insider Trading: The SEC Meets Karl Karcher, by Elizabeth Szockyj 13. Cybercrime Against Businesses, by Ramona R. Rantala SECTION VIII. Crimes in the Housing System Readings: 14. The Mortgage Meltdown as Normal Accidental Wrongdoing, by Donald Palmer and Michael W. Maher 15. 2009 Mortgage Fraud Report "Year in Review," by the Federal Bureau of Investigation SECTION IX. Crimes by the Corporate System Readings: 16. Is Corporate Crime Serious Crime? Criminal Justice and Corporate Crime Control, by Ronald C. Kramer 17. Food for Thought: An Investigation of Food and Drug Administration Reporting Practices, 1995-1999, by Michael J. Lynch, Roonald J. Burns, and Jefferson E. Holcomb SECTION X. Environmental Crime Readings: 18. Corporate Environmental Crimes and Social Inequality: New Directions for Environmental Justice Research, by David R. Simon 19. Crimes Against the Environment: Superfund Enforcement at Last, by Harold C. Barnett SECTION XI. Explaining White-Collar Crime Readings: 20. Are White-Collar and Common Offenders the Same? An Empirical and Theoretical Critique of a Recently Proposed General Theory of Crime, by Michael L. Benson and Elizabeth Moore 21. Completely Out of Control or the Desire to Be in Control? How Low Self-Control and the Desire for Control Relate to Corporate Offending, by Nicole Leeper Piquero, Andrea Schoepfer, and Lynn Langton 22. White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Specifying a Trajectory of Punctuated Situational Offending, by Nicole Leeper Piquero and Michael L. Benson SECTION XII. Policing White-Collar Crime Readings: 23. Documenting Inadequate Care in the Nursing Home: The Story of an Undercover Agent, by Garrett E. Speaks 24. Government Whistleblowers: Crime's Hidden Victims, by Carleen A. Botsko and Robert C. Wells SECTION XIII. Judicial Proceedings and White-Collar Crime Readings: 25. Local Prosecutors and Corporate Crime, by Michael L. Benson, Francis T. Cullen, and William J. Maakestad 26. Whistleblowing and Lawyers, by Barbara A. Belbot SECTION XIV. The Corrections Subsystem and White-Collar Crime Readings: 27. The Special Sensitivity of White-Collar Offenders to Prison: A Critique and Research Agenda, by Michael L. Benson and Francis T. Cullen 28. "Club Fed" in Japan? Incarceration Experiences of Japanese Embezzlers, by Jurg Gerber 29. White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers: Some Preliminary Findings, by David Weisburd, Ellen F. Chayet, and Elin J. Waring Glossary References Credits and Sources Index About the Author