White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational conditions that facilitate white-collar crimes. In addition, they offer potential solutions to this persistent and widespread social problem without being reductive in their treatment of the difficulties of control.
With this third edition, Benson and Simpson have added substantive online teaching materials and expanded their coverage with up-to-date case studies and discussions of recent investigations into white-collar crime and control. These timely updates reaffirm this accessible and rigorous book as a core resource for courses on white-collar crime.
Preface to the Third Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgements. Part I-White-Collar Crime: Introduction and Overview. Chapter 1 - What Is White-Collar Crime? Chapter 2 - Who is the White-Collar Offender? Part II-Criminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective. Chapter 3 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional Criminological Theories. Chapter 4 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: The Opportunity Perspective. Part III-Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime. Chapter 5 - Financial Crimes in Health Care, Mortgages, Securities, and Markets. Chapter 6 - Corporate Violence: Environmental, Workplace, and Manufacturing Offenses. Part IV-The Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities. Chapter 7 - The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity: Neutralization, Moral Disengagement, and Normalization of Deviance. Chapter 8 - The Social Distribution of Opportunity: Class, Gender, and Race. Part V-Control, Prevention, and the Future of White-Collar Crime. Chapter 9 - Legal Controls: The Criminal Justice, Regulatory, and Civil Justice Systems. Chapter 10 - Opportunities and Situational Prevention of White-Collar Crime: Using Legal and Extralegal Controls. Chapter 11 - Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime. References. Index.
