Profit Without Honor: White-collar Crime and the Looting of AmericaFor courses in American Culture, White Collar Crime, Social Problems, Criminology, and Law & Society. The second edition of Profit Without Honor discusses and explains various types of white collar crimes in easily understood terms in an engaging and entertaining manner. The nature and extent of these acts are fully documented using academic and popular sources. The text also looks at the damage inflicted upon victims, and the larger society, its institutions and culture as a whole, showing it to be much greater than that of common crime. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Crimes Against Consumers | 37 |
Unsafe Products | 90 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
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