ABSTRACT
Unlike other books of its kind, Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective uses a coherent theoretical perspective in its coverage of white-collar crime. Using opportunity perspective, or the assumption that all crimes depend on offenders having some sort of opportunity to commit an offense, allows the authors to uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue, without being reductive in their treatment of the topic. With this second edition, Benson and Simpson have greatly expanded their coverage to include new case studies, substantive materials, and an annotated appendix of online resources to make this a core book for courses on white-collar crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I An Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime
part |2 pages
Part II Criminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective
part |4 pages
Part III Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime
part |2 pages
Part IV The Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities
part |2 pages
Part V Control, Prevention, and the Future of White-Collar Crime