Dr. Melissa L. Rorie is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, USA. Her research focuses on the impact of formal and informal controls on corporate and white-collar offending. Dr. Rorie has published numerous peer-reviewed articles for journals including Crime, Law and Social Change, Criminology & Public Policy, Law & Policy, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. She has also had her research published in a range of handbooks and readers.

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• Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xvMelissa L. RorieIntroduction xviiiMelissa L. RorieSection I What is White‐Collar Crime? 11 The “Discovery” of White‐Collar Crime: The Legacy of Edwin Sutherland 3Aleksandra Jordanoska and Isabel Schoultz2 White Collar Crime: Definitional Debates and the Case for a Typological Approach 16David O. Friedrichs3 Measuring White Collar Crime 32April Wall‐ParkerSection II Extent and Cost of White‐Collar Crimes 454 Types of Harm, Extent of Harm, and the Victims of Occupational Crimes 47Petter Gottschalk5 From Economic Crime to Corporate Violence: The Multifaceted Harms of Corporate Crime 64Gabrio Forti and Arianna Visconti6 Beyond State and State‐Corporate Crime Typologies: The Symbiotic Nature, Harm, and Victimization of Crimes of the Powerful and Their Continuation 81Dawn L. Rothe and Corina MedleySection III What We Know About White‐Collar Offending 957 Who Commits Occupational Crimes? 97Michael L. Benson and Hei Lam Chio8 Who Commits Corporate Crime? 113Mary Dodge9 State‐Corporate Crimes 127Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte10 Blurred Lines: Collusions Between Legitimate and Illegitimate Organizations 139Wim Huisman11 Explaining White‐Collar Crime: Individual‐Level Theories 159Rachel E. Severson, Zachery H. Kodatt, and George W. Burruss12 Organizational and Macro‐Level Corporate Crime Theories 175Jay P. Kennedy13 Integrated Theories of White‐Collar and Corporate Crime 191Fiona Chan and Carole GibbsSection IV Preventing and Punishing White‐Collar Crimes 20914 Public Opinion About White‐Collar Crime 211Francis T. Cullen, Cecilia Chouhy, and Cheryl Lero Jonson15 Preventing Corporate Crime from Within: Compliance Management, Whistleblowing, and Internal Monitoring 229Benjamin van Rooij and Adam D. Fine16 Preventing and Intervening in White‐Collar Crimes: The Role of Law Enforcement 246Nicholas Lord and Karin van Wingerde17 Preventing and Intervening in White Collar Crimes: The Role of Regulatory Agencies 262Angela Francis and Nicholas Ryder18 Prosecution, Defense, and Sentencing of White‐Collar Crime 279Ronald G. Burns and Michele Bisaccia Meitl19 The Correctional Experiences of White‐Collar Offenders 297Ben Hunter20 Punishing Corporations 314Mark A. CohenSection V White‐Collar Crime: An International Perspective 33521 White‐Collar and Corporate Crime: European Perspectives 337Christian Walburg22 White‐Collar and Corporate Crime in China 347Henry N. Pontell, Adam K. Ghazi‐Tehrani, and Bryan Burton23 White‐Collar Crime in South and Central America: Corporate‐State Crime, Governance, and the High Impact of the Odebrecht Corruption Case 363Diego Zysman‐Quirós24 Prosecuting and Sentencing White‐Collar Crime in US Federal Courts: Revisiting the Yale Findings 381Miranda A. Galvin and Sally S. Simpson25 Market Criminology: A Critical Engagement with Primitive Accumulation in the Petroleum Extraction Industry in Africa 398Ifeanyi Ezeonu26 Researching White‐Collar Crime: An Australian Perspective 418Arie Freiberg27 Review of Comparative Studies on White‐Collar and Corporate Crime 437Tomomi KawasakiSection VI Emerging White‐Collar Crime Issues 44928 Technology’s Influence on White‐Collar Offending, Reporting, and Investigation 451Thomas J. Holt and Jay P. Kennedy29 The Elusiveness of White‐Collar and Corporate Crime in a Globalized Economy 469Karin van Wingerde and Nicholas Lord30 Controlling Corporate Crimes in Times of De‐regulation and Re‐regulation 484Steven Bittle and Jasmine HébertIndex 502