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Chapter 22

An essential starting point for studying what was originally meant by the label of white-collar crime remains Edwin H. Sutherland, White-collar Crime: The Uncut Version (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983). Useful overviews of the field include Steven Box, Power, Crime and Mystification (London: Tavistock, 1983); Michael Clarke, Business Crime: Its Nature and Control (Oxford: Polity Press, 1990); Hazel Croall, White-collar Crime (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1994); David Nelken (ed.), White-collar Crime (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994); David O. Friedrichs, Trusted Criminals: White-collar Criminals in Contemporary Society (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2nd edn, 2003); and Gary Slapper and Steve Tombs, Corporate Crime (Harlow: Longman, 1999). The organization of the Slapper and Tombs volume—the most comprehensive recent UK text—roughly follows the expository order of this chapter. But the authors take a resolutely Marxist approach which links white-collar crime to the imperatives of capitalist social structure; and at the same time also wish to remove any ambiguity from the (capitalist) legal response to such behaviour. James Gobert and Maurice Punch in Rethinking Corporate Crime (London) Butterworths 2003, drawing on pioneering research by David Bergman, Celia Wells, and others, offer a thorough and balanced analysis of the ways corporations may be held legally accountable for the safety risks they create. More detailed (mainly USA) case studies can be sampled in Kip Schlegel and David Weisburd (eds), White-Collar Crime Reconsidered (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992) and Michael Tonry and Albert Reiss Jnr (eds), Beyond the Law: Crime in Complex Organizations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) and Maurice Punch, Dirty Business: Exploring Corporate Misconduct (London: Sage, 1996). On the response to the sort of white-collar crime which gets dealt with by the ordinary courts in Britain the best work is that by Mike Levi, Regulating Fraud (London: Tavistock, 1987). An original and controversial approach to the increasingly important problem of the overlap between white-collar and organized crime is Vincenzo Ruggiero, Organised Crime and Corporate Crime in Europe (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996).