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Choosing White-Collar Crimeby Neal Shover; Andrew Hochstetler; Alfred Blumstein; David Farrington
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00This distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime and presents reasons for believing both have increased substantially in recent decades. The book concludes with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked increasingly in the global economy and calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the increases. more...
Hacked, Attacked and Abusedby Peter Lilley
Kogan Page 2003; US$ 16.35Hacked, Attacked and Abused is an in-depth exposé of the Internet underbelly - pornography, paedophilia, hate sites, grudge sites, terrorist information ? it?s all there in glorious detail on the Internet. Expert author Peter Lilley gives us a compelling account of the risks inherent in our reliance on technology. He provides an overview and evaluation of crime, fraud and risk in the digital age by exploring how we got where we are now, where we are going and what risks we face in the future. more...
In the Name of Hateby Barbara Perry
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and also examines the misrepresented inter-ethnic violence including the Asian and African-American community. more...
Wall Street on Trialby Justin O'Brien
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005; US$ 60.00The politics of business have become the business of politics. Across the world the lesson is clear: just as too much governmental interference leads to dysfunctional economies, left to its own devices the market is incapable of adequate self-regulation. The corporate malfeasance crisis in the United States has transformed global perceptions about the efficacy of regulatory structures in combating corrupt practices in private and public sectors. The design of effective corporate governance structures depends not just on internal factors but also on the inter-relationship between various actors that constitute wider governance: politicians, lobbyists, corporations and regulators. A Corrupted State: Wall Street on Trial breaks new ground by deconstructing... more...
Financial Crime Investigation and Controlby K. H. Spencer Pickett; Jennifer M. Pickett
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 105.50The indispensable guide to detecting and solving financial crime in the office Low-level financial crimes are a fact of life in the modern workplace. Individually these crimes are rarely significant enough to warrant the hiring of professional investigators, but if left unchecked, small crimes add up to big losses. In companies without dedicated fraud investigators, detecting and solving low-level crimes generally falls to managers and internal auditors. Financial Crime Investigation and Control offers tips, tools, and techniques to help professionals who lack investigative experience stem the tide of small financial crimes before it becomes a tsunami. Inside you'll find expert guidance on investigating and uncovering common types of fraud,... more...
Crime and the Internetby David S. Wall
Routledge 2001; US$ 59.95This groundbreaking text examines for the first time the nature and consequences of crime on the internet, and analyses the new challenges that cybercrimes pose to the criminal justice system. more...
Safety Managementby John Davies; Alastair Ross; Brendan Wallace; Linda Wright
CRC Press 2003; US$ 67.95Safety Management argues that it is the methodologies of the human sciences that are more suitable for providing a firm basis for safety management and offers new approaches to safety management in accordance with this view. more...
Injury Prevention and Controlby Dinesh Mohan; G.N. Tiwari
CRC Press 2000; US$ 84.95At least 5 million people die or are injured at work each year. This book presents the best presentations from the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control on preventing accidents and injury in the workplace. more...
How Companies Lieby Larry Elliott; Richard Schroth
Crown Publishing Group 2002; US$ 11.99The questions investors need to ask . . . The answers corporate America must give about the true facts of corporate performance and value. During the 2001 baseball season, when games were played at Enron Field in Houston, a typical reaction was: “What the hell is Enron and what do they do?” Now we know more about the executives and inner workings of today’s best-known rogue company than we ever imagined. But it turns out that Enron is just the most egregious case of a disturbing trend and the seemingly unstoppable tendency of some capitalists to destroy capitalism. Something like 50 percent of American households directly support the markets by investing in stocks and mutual funds. But some of the people entrusted with the... more...
Cyberterrorismby Joseph Gustin
Marcel Dekker Inc 2003; US$ 109.95Addressing cyberterrorism and other terrorist activity including mailroom security, bomb threats, viruses, hackers and invasive programs, this book identifies known terrorists. It addresses the necessary steps needed for prevention of their attacks. more...









