Occupational Crime

by Gerald Mars (Editor)

Overview

This title was first publishde in 2001. Occupational crime is found in the whole range of occupations and at all levels. Despite the fact that activities are widespread and well known, the area is blurred by contradictory perceptions, denials and arguments over definition. This volume presents influential essays on the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351759328
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2018
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	438
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Professor in Applied Anthropology, Universities o f North London and North Umbria Business Schools.

Table of Contents

I: Theories, Motives and Meanings; [1]: Perks, Pilferage, and the Fiddle; [2]: Crime at work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft 1; [3]: Employee deviance; [4]: Employee Theft as Social Control *; [5]: Brit. J. Criminol. Vol.27 No.2 Spring 1987 Garment Workers: Perceptions of Inequity and Employee Theft; [6]: Employee Theft as a Reaction to Underpayment Inequity: The Hidden Cost of Pay Cuts; [7]: Blue-Collar Theft: Conceptions of Property, Attitudes Toward Pilfering, and Work Group Norms in a Modern Industrial Plant; [8]: The Interlocking of Official and Unofficial Reward; [9]: ANNALS, AAPSS , 493, September 1987 The Political Economy of Informal Economies; II: Cases and Comparative Contexts; [10]: Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop; [11]: Dock pilferage A case study in occupational theft; [12]: On River Plunder; [13]: A Historical Document of Ramesside Age; [14]: deviance in the fast-food restaurant: correlates of employee theft, altruism, and counterproductivity; [15]: Employee Theft in the Restaurant Trade: Forms of Ripping off by Waiters at Work; [16]: Why you may be dissatisfied with garage servicing; [17]: ANNALS, AAPSS, 493, September 1987 The Second Economy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; [18]: Soviet Studies , vol. XXXV, no. 4, October 1983, pp. 546–560 The Cultural Bases of Soviet Georgia’s Second Economy; III: Managerial Responses; [19]: A Little Larceny Can Do a Lot For Employee Morale; [20]: Integrity Testing for Personnel Selection: An Overview; [21]: How to Measure Employee Reliability; [22]: Working Under the Influence (WUI): Correlates of Employees’ Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs; [23]: Security Journal 7 (1996) 61–70 Managing losses in the retail store: A comparison of loss prevention activity in the United States and Great Britain