Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

This systematic application of rational-choice theory to white-collar crime problems distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime and presents reasons theoretically for believing that both have increased substantially over time. Reasons for the increase include the growing supply of white-collar lure and non-credible oversight. The book argues that measures and approaches used in the war on street crime have greater promise for reducing white-collar crime. Concluding with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked in the increasingly global economy, it calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the increases.

Politics & Social Sciences

Shover, Neal

Hochstetler, Andrew

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Andy Hochstetler is Associate Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. Neal Shover is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This systematic application of rational-choice theory to white-collar crime problems distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime and presents reasons theoretically for believing that both have increased substantially over time. Reasons for the increase include the growing supply of white-collar lure and non-credible oversight. The book argues that measures and approaches used in the war on street crime have greater promise for reducing white-collar crime. Concluding with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked in the increasingly global economy, it calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the increases.

Book by Shover, Neal, Einstadter, Werner J.

Analyzing American Corrections

Einstadter, Werner J.

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Aging Criminals (Sociological Observations)

What happens to criminals when they get old? While the career criminal has been studied, little attention has been paid to those who ′went straight′ after a youth of crime. Shover′s fascinating study serves to fill this gap. Through a series of intensive interviews and life studies, he identifies the elements which redirect criminals to a more conventional lifestyle.

Sage Publications, Inc.

In this book, the author focuses on the sociological origins, activities, and criminal careers of persistent thieves. He uses a crime-as-choice framework and a life-course perspective to make sense of important decisions and changes in the lives of persistent thieves.

Great Pretenders: Pursuits And Careers Of Persistent Thieves (Crime & Society)

Westview Press

Persistent thievescriminals who resume committing crimes of burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, and ordinary theft despite previous attempts to stopare a main focal point of American criminology and criminal justice. Cast as career criminals,” they are also one of the principal targets of the war on crime” that American governments have waged for more than two decades.Building on a theoretical interpretation of crime as choice, crime-control policies and programs justified by notions of deterrence and incapacitation have proliferated. America's urban police departments now have repeat offender units,” and many of the new state sentencing codes mandate lengthy sentences for defendants with previous convictions. Great Pretenders is based on the author's original studies and previously published research and on more than fifty autobiographies of persistent thieves. Shover uses a crime-as-choice framework and a life-course perspective to make sense of important decisions and changes in the lives of persistent thieves. He shows how the working-class origins of most persistent thieves produce both low legitimate and low criminal aspirations, even as those origins leave them ill equipped to exploit comparatively safe, lucrative, and newer forms of criminal opportunity.In this book Shover describes how many persistent thieves and hustlers identify with crime and pursue a lifestyle of life as party in which their choices alternately are made in contexts of drug-using hedonism or desperation. Their estimates of the likely payoffs from crime are severely distorted, and most give little thought to possible arrest. As they get older, however, persistent thieves make qualitative changes in the crimes they commit, and many eventually stop committing crimes altogether.The author highlights some unintended consequences of harsh crime control measures and raises critical questions about the one-size-fits-all approach to crime of recent decades.

Great Pretenders: Pursuits And Careers Of Persistent Thieves (Crime and Society)

Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy (Suny Series in Critical Issues in Criminal Justice)

Enforcement or Negotiation presents a study of the development and operations of the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement during its first four years (1978-82), with special emphasis on the issue of regulatory enforcement. It examines the causes and consequences of the agency's change from an enforced compliance style of regulation toward a more discretionary negotiated compliance . The analysis is grounded in a variety of methods, including personal interviews, examination of archival data, and structured questionnaires. A comparative analysis of how the legislation was implemented differently in two regions of the United States demonstrates the crucial importance of local conditions on the implementation of regulatory mandates. The OSM's efforts to balance demands for equity and efficiency are documented, as well as the differences in oppositional strategies employed by large and small mining companies.

Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy (Suny Series in Criminal Issues in Criminal Justice)

State University of New York Press

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Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Analyzing American Corrections

Aging Criminals (Sociological Observations)

Aging Criminals (Sociological Observations)

Great Pretenders: Pursuits And Careers Of Persistent Thieves (Crime & Society)

Great Pretenders: Pursuits And Careers Of Persistent Thieves (Crime and Society)

Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy (Suny Series in Criminal Issues in Criminal Justice)