White-Collar Crime: A Text/Reader, part of the text/reader series in criminology and criminal justice incorporates contemporary and classic readings (some including policy implications) accompanied by original text that provides a theoretical framework and context for students.
The comprehensive coverage of the book includes:
- crimes by workers sales oriented systems
- crimes in the health care system
- crimes by criminal justice professionals and politicians
- crimes in the educational system
- crimes in the economic and technological systems
- crimes by employees in the housing industry
- corporate crime
- environmental crime
- explanations of white-collar crime
- the police and court responses to white-collar crime
- the corrections sub-system and white-collar crime.
Features of the book include key points, in focus box inserts, discussion questions, section summaries, and photos.