ABSTRACT

The study of white-collar crime remains a central concern for criminologists around the world and research concentrates on its nature, prevalence, causes and responses. However, most books on white-collar crime tend to focus on Anglo-American examples, which is surprising given the amount of rich data and research taking place in mainland Europe. This new handbook seeks to reset the balance and, for the first time, presents an overview of state-of-the-art research on white-collar crime in Europe.

Adding to the existing Anglo-American body of knowledge, the Handbook will discuss specific European topics and typical European features of white-collar crime. The Routledge Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe consists of more than thirty chapters on topics ranging from the Icelandic Banking Crisis, to the origins of the study of white collar crime, to contemporary topics, such as white-collar crime in countries post-transition from communist regimes; the illegal e-waste trade and white-collar crime in professional football. Furthermore, the book contains extensive case study analyses of landmark European cases of white-collar crime.

The editors have gathered together the leading voices in the field and a final section offers commentaries on white-collar crime in Europe from eminent criminologists David Friedrichs and Hazel Croall. This Handbook will thus serve as a work of reference for all scholars and students engaged in the study of corporate and white-collar crime and will also set out directions for new research in the future.

part |100 pages

Defining and measuring white-collar and corporate crime in Europe

part |41 pages

Historical perspectives on white-collar and corporate crime in Europe

chapter |8 pages

Willem Bonger

The unrecognized European pioneer of the study of white-collar crime

chapter |13 pages

Regulation, governance and enforcement of white-collar crime in Europe

Special criminal law and inspectorates in Europe

part |196 pages

Contemporary white-collar and corporate crime in Europe

part |14 pages

Deviance in academia

chapter |14 pages

Within our walls

White-collar crime in Greek academia

part |14 pages

EU fraud

part |30 pages

Environmental crime and transnational waste flows

chapter |14 pages

Facilitators of environmental crime

Corporations and governments in the port of Antwerp

chapter |16 pages

The limits of environmental regulation in a globalized economy

Lessons from the Probo Koala case

part |85 pages

Landmark cases of white-collar crime in Europe

chapter |12 pages

Professional football and crime

Exploring terra incognita in studies on white-collar crime

chapter |14 pages

‘We are all going to be rich’

A case study of the Dutch real estate fraud case

chapter |18 pages

Varieties of corruption in the shadow of Siemens

A modus operandi study of corporate crime on the supply side of corrupt transactions

chapter |10 pages

Shadows of power

Agusta, a Belgian affair

part |170 pages

Responses to white-collar crime in Europe

part |55 pages

Criminalization and regulation

part |35 pages

Corporate self-regulation

part |30 pages

Anglo-American reflections on white-collar crime in Europe

chapter |15 pages

White-collar crime in Europe

Afterword

chapter |13 pages

White-collar crime in Europe

American reflections