Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America / Edition 6

by Stephen Rosoff, Henry Pontell, Robert Tillman

Overview

Well-written, witty, and authoritative.

Profit Without Honor clearly exposes the battle between personal gain and individual integrity and provides a comprehensive overview of white-collar crime in American society. Presenting a vivid picture of all types of white-collar crime, the book covers high-profile cases, the latest trends in criminal activity, and a thorough discussion of the victims and consequences of these criminal behaviors. This edition addresses the recurrent financial meltdowns in recent years and the role of fraud and corporate crime in these crises. Utilizing both academic and popular sources, the book challenges readers to grasp the importance and long-term effects of white-collar crime in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133008500
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	09/12/2013
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	664
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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Stephen M. Rosoff was professor of criminology at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. He received his PhD in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine and has written extensively on white-collar crime and professional deviance, particularly in the areas of medical fraud and computer crime. His scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and books around the world, including Social Deviance (McGraw Hill, 2011), which he coauthored.

Henry N. Pontell is professor of criminology, law and society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His scholarly work has focused on financial and medical fraud and the role of corporate crime in major financial debacles, among other areas in criminology. His books include Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (UC Press), Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid (UC Press) and International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime (Springer).

Robert H. Tillman is professor of sociology at St. John’s University in New York City. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of California, Davis. He is the author and co-author of several books on white-collar crime, including Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (University of California Press) and Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy (Rutgers University Press).

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 Crimes Against Consumers

CHAPTER 3 Unsafe Products

CHAPTER 4 Environmental Crime

CHAPTER 5 Institutional Corruption: Mass Media and Religion

CHAPTER 6 Securities Fraud

CHAPTER 7 Corporate Fraud

CHAPTER 8 Fiduciary Fraud: Crime in the Banking, Insurance, and Pension Fund Industries

CHAPTER 9 Crimes by the Government

CHAPTER 10 Corruption of Public Officials

CHAPTER 11 Medical Crime

CHAPTER 12 Computer Crime

CHAPTER 13 Conclusions