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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |100 pages
Defining and measuring white-collar and corporate crime in Europe
chapter |32 pages
Charting Europe's moral economies
chapter |17 pages
Measuring white-collar crime perceptions among public and white-collar offenders
part |41 pages
Historical perspectives on white-collar and corporate crime in Europe
chapter |13 pages
Regulation, governance and enforcement of white-collar crime in Europe
part |196 pages
Contemporary white-collar and corporate crime in Europe
part |51 pages
White-collar crime in countries of transition
chapter |20 pages
Retroactive prosecution of transitional economic crimes in Croatia
part |14 pages
Deviance in academia
part |14 pages
EU fraud
part |30 pages
Environmental crime and transnational waste flows
chapter |14 pages
Facilitators of environmental crime
chapter |16 pages
The limits of environmental regulation in a globalized economy
part |85 pages
Landmark cases of white-collar crime in Europe
chapter |12 pages
Professional football and crime
chapter |18 pages
Varieties of corruption in the shadow of Siemens
part |170 pages
Responses to white-collar crime in Europe
part |55 pages
Criminalization and regulation
chapter |19 pages
The prosecution of white-collar crime in a developing economy
part |35 pages
Corporate self-regulation
part |78 pages
Law enforcement
chapter |18 pages
The comparative political economy of financial crimes and their enforcement
chapter |15 pages
Global governance = global compliance?
chapter |19 pages
How does law enforcement respond to entrepreneurial white-collar crime?
part |30 pages
Anglo-American reflections on white-collar crime in Europe