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White-Collar Crime: Accounts of Offending Behaviour
Janice Goldstraw-White
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Description for White-Collar Crime: Accounts of Offending Behaviour
paperback. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JMK; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. It is based on in-depth interviews with 41 male and female convicted white-collar offenders, who were still serving their sentences in English prisons. Whilst a number of texts have been written about white-collar crime offenders, very few studies have attempted to approach this by examining the actual reasons and motives for their criminal behaviour directly from the offenders. This book aims to make further progress in this area. By exploring the participants' motives, opportunities and morality, ... Read more
This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. It is based on in-depth interviews with 41 male and female convicted white-collar offenders, who were still serving their sentences in English prisons. Whilst a number of texts have been written about white-collar crime offenders, very few studies have attempted to approach this by examining the actual reasons and motives for their criminal behaviour directly from the offenders. This book aims to make further progress in this area. By exploring the participants' motives, opportunities and morality, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
Series
Crime Prevention and Security Management
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349369072
SKU
V9781349369072
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99-15
About Janice Goldstraw-White
JANICE GOLDSTRAW-WHITE is an independent scholar specializing in Criminology who runs her own management and research consultancy, Goldstraw-White Associates, UK, working with academic, private and public sector bodies. Working over 20 years as an accountant mainly in the public sector, she has particular interests in crime in the workplace, fraudster behaviour and the role of women in white-collar crime.
Reviews for White-Collar Crime: Accounts of Offending Behaviour
'Her book - her achievement - is to offer evidence of what fraudsters do, and why [...] it adds up to a most useful and thought-provoking book, that I hope will be picked up (and the contents re-used!?) widely.' - Professional Security Magazine