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White-Collar Crime

Accounts of Offending Behaviour

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Janice Goldstraw-White

    1. Goldstraw-White Associates, UK

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Part of the book series: Crime Prevention and Security Management (CPSM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 1-8

  3. Overview and Background to the Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Accounting for Behaviour — Theoretical Approaches

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 11-30

    3. Undertaking the Research

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 31-49

  4. White-Collar Crime Offenders’ Accounts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Outer-Legal Self and Inner-Moral Self

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 53-68

    3. Motivation, Opportunity and Rationality

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 69-104

    4. The Self as a Moral Person

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 105-133

    5. Offenders’ Afterthoughts

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 134-158

    6. Accounts and Gender

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 159-185

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Summary

      • Janice Goldstraw-White
      Pages 189-201

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 202-218
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About this book

This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. It is based on in-depth interviews with 41 male and female convicted white-collar offenders, who were still serving their sentences in English prisons. Whilst a number of texts have been written about white-collar crime offenders, very few studies have attempted to approach this by examining the actual reasons and motives for their criminal behaviour directly from the offenders. This book aims to make further progress in this area. By exploring the participants' motives, opportunities and morality, this book will make a key contribution to exploring white-collar crime offenders' perspectives of their crimes. This book not only adds to the academic knowledge in this area, but also helps organizations to consider the strengths of their crime prevention methods and appropriateness of their fraud and security policies.

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'Her book - her achievement - is to offer evidence of what fraudsters do, and why [...] it adds up to a most useful and thought-provoking book, that I hope will be picked up (and the contents re-used!?) widely.'

- Professional Security Magazine

Authors and Affiliations

  • Goldstraw-White Associates, UK

    Janice Goldstraw-White

About the author

JANICE GOLDSTRAW-WHITE is an independent scholar specializing in Criminology who runs her own management and research consultancy, Goldstraw-White Associates, UK, working with academic, private and public sector bodies. Working over 20 years as an accountant mainly in the public sector, she has particular interests in crime in the workplace, fraudster behaviour and the role of women in white-collar crime.

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