Constructing White-Collar Crime - Joachim J Savelsberg

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Résumé :
Based on Joachim J. Savelsberg and Peter BrÜhl, Politik und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht: RationalitÄten, Kommunikationen und Macht (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1988), revised, translated, and with a new chapter on the United States.

Biographie:
Joachim J. Savelsberg is Professor of Sociology and Law, and holds the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, at the University of Minnesota. Peter Bruhl is free legal counsel in the state of Bremen, German.

Sommaire:

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Preface
PART I- WHY STUDY WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LEGISLATION?
Chapter 1- Questions, Introduction to the Case, and Overview
PART II- THEORY AND METHODS IN THE STUDY OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LEGISLATION
Chapter 2- Rationalities, Communication, and Power: Theoretical Perspectives and Methods
PART III- THE CASE STUDY: FROM CLAIMS MAKING TO LEGISLATION
Chapter 3- The Social Problem of Economic Crime, Claims Making, and Motivating the Political Process
Chapter 4- The Expert Commission: Developing the Claims and First Resistance
Chapter 5- The Production of the Second Law Against Economic Crime: The Political Sector
Chapter 6- Context Structures, Situations, and Argument Structures: The Total Set of Cognitive Maps
PART IV- CONCLUSIONS FROM THE CASE STUDY AND AN AMERICAN-GERMAN COMPARISON
Chapter 7- Rationalities, Communication, and Power: Conclusions
Chapter 8- The American and German Cases: Commonalities and Differences
References
Index