White-Collar Criminal ― The Offender in Business And the Professions

This student reader, a reprint from 1968, contains classic and contemporary writings on white-collar crime, with an emphasis on studies of particular aspects. Geis (criminology, law, and society, U. of California, Irvine) assembles 32 readings from journals, magazines, and books that span in date from early writings from 1907 and 1935, and the pioneering address by Edwin Sutherland, to the American Sociological Society in 1939, up to 1967. Studies examine ethics, rent-control violations, cheating on taxes, financial trust, prescription violations, ambulance chasing, victims, the legal process, and controversies regarding the concept of white-collar crime. The introduction addresses the consequences for society, the importance of distinguishing between illegal and other kinds of behavior, the development of laws, the need for typologies, and the good and bad points of Sutherland's position. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)