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Encyclopedia of white-collar crime
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Encyclopedia of white-collar crime

Author: Jurg Gerber; Eric L Jensen
Publisher: Westport. Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jurg Gerber; Eric L Jensen
ISBN: 0313335249 9780313335242
OCLC Number: 71329828
Description: xviii, 316 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents: ABC Home Health Services (Medicare fraud) -- Abscam, Operation -- A. H. Robins -- Allied Irish Bank Scandal -- Amphetamine -- Archer-Daniels--Midland (ADM) -- Arthur Andersen -- Asbestos -- Bait and Switch -- Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye -- Barings Bank -- Beech-Nut Apple Juice Scandal -- Bid rigging cartels -- Black lung -- Boesky, Jean (1937- ) -- Braithwaite, John (1951- ) -- Bre-X Scandal -- Brown lung disease -- Buffalo Creek Flood -- Calvi, Roberto (1920-1982) -- C-5A transport aircraft -- Chemical crimes -- Chevrolet Corvair -- Citibank and misdirected Russian IMF loans -- Control fraud theory -- Corporate crime -- Corporate war crimes -- Credit Lyonnais -- Crimes against Native Americans -- Criminogenic industry -- Cruise line industry -- Daiwa Bank, Ltd. -- Dalkon Shield -- Deposit Insurance and the S&L Debacle -- DES -- Differential association -- Dixon, Don -- Drexel Burnham Lambert -- Enron -- Environmental white-collar crime -- Exxon Valdez -- False advertising -- Film Recovery Systems -- Fire in Goteberg, Sweden -- Firestone 500 Tires -- First Alliance Corporation Home Equity -- Ford Pinto -- Funeral industry fraud -- Golab, Stephen (1923-1983) -- Hadacol -- Halliburton -- Hazardous waste disposal -- Health care industry -- Heavy Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases of 1961 -- Herold of Free Enterprise -- Hooker Chemical Corporation -- Iacocca, Lee (1924- ) -- Identity theft -- Imperial Food Plant Fire -- Industrial accidents -- Industrial espionage -- Infant formula -- Insider trading -- Insurance industry fraud -- Internet fraud -- Iran-Contra -- Johns-Manville Corporation -- Junk bonds -- Keating, Charles H., Jr. (1923- ) -- Kerr-McGee -- Kreuger, Ivan (1880-1932) -- Levine, Dennis (1953- ) -- Lincoln Savings and Loan Association -- Lockhead Bribing Scandal -- Martin County Coal Slurry Spill -- Meatpacking industry -- Media portrayal of white-collar crime -- Meta-regulation and the control of white-collar crime -- Milken, Micheal (1946- ) -- NASA -- Negative option billing -- Nike v. Kasky -- 900 numbers -- Northern Pacific Railroad Stock Run of 1903 -- Nursing home fraud -- Occupationally related diseases -- OSHA -- Paper entrepreneurialism -- "Parking" stock -- Pesticides -- Pharmaceutical companies -- Piper Alpha -- Political corruption -- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) -- Ponzi, Charles (1882-1949) -- Power theory -- Price fixing -- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) -- Radical/critical theories -- Rational choice theory -- Religion and white-collar crime -- Routine activities and white collar crime -- Salt Lake City Olympics Bribery -- Self-control theory -- Sevesco Dioxin Disaster -- Silver Valley mining pollution -- South Sea Bubble -- Standard Oil -- State-corporate crime -- Stewart, Martha (1941- ) -- Strain theory and white-collar crime -- Swaggert, Jimmy -- Swiss Banks -- Teapot Dome -- Techniques of neutralization and white-collar crime -- Three Mile Island -- Trail Smelter -- Union Carbide -- ValuJet Flight 592 -- Victimization -- Victoria Insurance Company -- Wallach, E. Robert (1934- ) -- Waste Management, Inc. -- Wedtech Scandal.
Responsibility: edited by Jurg Gerber and Eric L. Jensen with the collaboration of Jiletta L. Kubena.

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