Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime In Contemporary Society - Softcover

Friedrichs, David O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495600822 ISBN 13: 9780495600824

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2009

Synopsis

TRUSTED CRIMINALS: WHITE COLLAR CRIME IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY is a comprehensive guide that covers topics ranging from the problems involved in studying white collar crimes to the principal focus of the crimes to the character of the legal and criminal justice response to the crime.

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About the Author

David O. Friedrichs is Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice and Distinguished University Fellow at the University of Scranton (Pennsylvania). He is the author of LAW IN OUR LIVES: AN INTRODUCTION (Roxbury, 2001; 2006), editor of STATE CRIME, VOLUMES I AND II (Ashgate, 1998), and has published well over 100 articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and essays on a wide range of sociological and criminological topics, including many articles on white collar crime. He has been a visiting professor at a number of universities, including Ohio University, the University of South Africa, and Flinders University (Australia). He has also served as President of the White Collar Crime Research Consortium (2002-2004). In 2005 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495600822
• ISBN 13: 9780495600824
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 496