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1 online resource (596 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Criminology and white-collar crime in Europe; PART I Defining and measuring white-collar and corporate crime in Europe; 2 The measurement of corporate crime: an exercise in futility?; 3 Determining the adequate enforcement of white-collar and corporate crimes in Europe; 4 Charting Europe's moral economies: citizens, consumers and the crimes of everyday life; 5 On the difficulty of measuring economic crime |
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6 Measuring white-collar crime perceptions among public and white-collar offenders: a comparative investigation of four European countriesPART II Historical perspectives on white-collar and corporate crime in Europe; 7 Willem Bonger: the unrecognized European pioneer of the study of white-collar crime; 8 Corporate involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes; 9 Regulation, governance and enforcement of white-collar crime in Europe: special criminal law and inspectorates in Europe; PART III Contemporary white-collar and corporate crime in Europe |
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White-collar crime in countries of transition10 Economic crime and the privatization of East German corporations; 11 White-collar crime in countries of transition: the lesson of Hungary; 12 Retroactive prosecution of transitional economic crimes in Croatia: testing the legal principles and human rights; Deviance in academia; 13 Within our walls: white-collar crime in Greek academia; EU fraud; 14 EU fraud and new member states -- a success story? The case of Bulgaria; Environmental crime and transnational waste flows |
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15 Facilitators of environmental crime: corporations and governments in the port of Antwerp16 The limits of environmental regulation in a globalized economy: lessons from the Probo Koala case; Landmark cases of white-collar crime in Europe; 17 The Icelandic approach to the 2008 banking crisis; 18 Professional football and crime: exploring terra incognita in studies on white-collar crime; 19 'We are all going to be rich': a case study of the Dutch real estate fraud case |
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20 Varieties of corruption in the shadow of Siemens: a modus operandi study of corporate crime on the supply side of corrupt transactions21 Shadows of power: Agusta, a Belgian affair; 22 The Italian Eternit case; PART IV Responses to white-collar crime in Europe; Criminalization and regulation; 23 Political culture and corporate homicide liability in the UK and Europe; 24 Management of tax transgressions in France: a Foucauldian perspective; 25 The prosecution of white-collar crime in a developing economy: a case study of Ireland in the twentieth century; Corporate self-regulation |
| Summary |
The study of white-collar crime remains a central concern for criminologists around the world and research concentrates on its nature, prevalence, causes and responses. However, most books on white-collar crime tend to focus on Anglo-American examples, which is surprising given the amount of rich data and research taking place in mainland Europe. This new handbook seeks to reset the balance and, for the first time, presents an overview of state-of-the-art research on white-collar crime in Europe. Adding to the existing Anglo-American body of knowledge, the Handbook will discuss specific Europea |
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26 Whistleblowing in Europe: regulatory frameworks and empirical research |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Huisman, Wim
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Vande Walle, Gudrun
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| ISBN |
9781317936718 |
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131793671X |
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