ABSTRACT
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense. The authors explicate the processes and situational conditions that facilitate opportunities for white-collar crimes and the likelihood of being victimized by white-collar crime. In addition, they offer potential policy solutions that will mitigate this persistent and widespread social problem while being realistic and balanced in their treatment of the difficulties of control. With this fourth edition, Benson and Simpson have enlisted the aid of two young white-collar crime scholars, Jay P. Kennedy and Melissa Rorie, who bring new areas of expertise to the book that enhance its analytical depth and coverage of both white-collar crime and the opportunity perspective. New up-to-date case studies are included along with examinations of recent investigations into white-collar crime and its control. These timely updates reaffirm that this rigorous yet accessible book will remain a core resource for undergraduate and early graduate courses on white-collar crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
White-Collar Crime
part II|50 pages
Criminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective
chapter Chapter 3|21 pages
Explaining White-Collar Crime
chapter Chapter 4|11 pages
Explaining White-Collar Crime
part III|48 pages
Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime
chapter Chapter 6|26 pages
Financial Crimes in Health Care, Mortgages, Securities, Markets, and Crises
part IV|38 pages
The Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities
chapter Chapter 8|18 pages
The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity
part V|35 pages
Control, Prevention, and the Future of White-Collar Crime