Organising White-Collar and Corporate Crimes
Understanding the Dynamics of White-Collar Criminality
Michael Levi author Nicholas Lord author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:4th Mar '25
£105.00
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This insightful work examines the organization and dynamics of white-collar and corporate crimes, offering valuable theoretical and empirical insights for researchers and practitioners alike.
This book delves into the complexities of white-collar and corporate crimes, offering a fresh perspective on how to analyze and investigate these offenses. By re-constituting our approach, the authors aim to build comprehensive theoretical and empirical accounts that reveal the underlying mechanisms, relationships, and processes that facilitate such crimes. The exploration extends to the conditions necessary for the commission of white-collar crimes, providing insights into the intricate web of social dynamics at play.
Organising White-Collar and Corporate Crimes emphasizes the importance of understanding the motivations and roles of individuals involved in these offenses. It scrutinizes the factors that shape the organizational dynamics over time, highlighting the interplay between distal and proximal social arrangements that create opportunities for crime. The book also investigates the collaboration and connections among individuals, whether fleeting or enduring, who pursue criminal objectives, examining the skills and expertise required to navigate these illicit endeavors.
In addition to theoretical frameworks, this volume assesses the broader human, social, cultural, and material antecedents that contribute to the rise or decline of white-collar crimes. It serves as a vital resource for scholars in criminology, sociology, and related fields, as well as practitioners and policymakers interested in understanding the complexities of these crimes. Organising White-Collar and Corporate Crimes ultimately provides a comprehensive guide to the structures and dynamics that underpin white-collar criminality, making it essential reading for those seeking to unravel this intricate phenomenon.
'In this groundbreaking work, Lord and Levi present a detailed analysis of how complex white-collar and corporate crimes are organized. By focusing on the mechanics of white-collar offenses, they advance our understanding of how and why these multifaceted crimes persist as well as suggesting mechanisms for their regulation and control.'
Michael L. Benson, Professor of Criminology, University of Cincinnati
'Lord and Levi, renowned global scholars, take readers on a tour de force into the world of white-collar and corporate criminals. Focusing on the very nature of these crimes – organisation, they lay bare the deep mechanisms on which they thrive. Razor-sharp analyses of juicy cases complement a truly intellectual adventure.'
Susanne Karstedt, Professor of Criminology, Griffith University
'This book by two of the most authoritative scholars in white-collar criminology offers a comprehensive account of how white-collar crimes are organized and financed, as well as many case descriptions of seriously harmful white-collar crimes in contemporary organizations. An essential read.'
Judith van Erp, Professor of Regulatory Governance, Utrecht University
'Seventy-five years after Edwin Sutherland characterized white-collar crimes as crimes of organization, this book provides the analytical framework to actually study the contemporary organization of white-collar and corporate crimes. This is much needed to advance white-collar and corporate crime scholarship.'
Karin van Wingerde, Professor of Corporate Crime and Governance, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam
'Most studies apply mainstream theories from criminology to white-collar and corporate crime, with mixed results. This book revitalizes the field with an opposite approach, by directly aiming at the core of white-collar crime. Understanding ‘organisation’ is key to understanding the true nature and root causes of white-collar and corporate crime.'
Wim Huisman, Professor of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
'Why are white-collar and corporate crimes organized as they are? What conditions give rise to different forms of organisation over time? How do people come together to undertake and accomplish these illegal acts? In this unique and important book, the authors conduct a deep dive into the underlying mechanisms of organisation by connecting diverse literatures (opportunity, white-collar crime scripts, and multi-mode, multi-link network analysis) and applying their integrated perspective to case studies of white-collar and corporate crime. The approach is innovative and illuminating. I heartily recommend it.'
Sally S. Simpson, Distinguished University Professor (Emerita), Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland
ISBN: 9781138296107
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238 pages