White-Collar Crime: A Systems Approach

Product Description
Updated with an exciting new chapter on political crime that highlights the debated connections between crime and politics, the Third Edition of White-Collar Crime provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the most important topics within white-collar crime. Brian K. Payne provides a theoretical framework and context for you to explore white-collar crime as a crime problem, a criminal justice problem, and a social problem. By introducing the topics within a systematic approach, Payne encourages you to examine the many facets of white-collar crime by exposing you to different crimes as well as the various systems for responding to white-collar misconduct.
About the Author
Brian K. Payne received his doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993. He is currently the vice provost for academic affairs at Old Dominion University, where he is tenured in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and the chair of the Hampton Roads Cybersecurity Education, Workforce, and Economic Development Alliance. He is a former editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice, past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Payne is the author or coauthor of more than 160 journal articles and seven books including White-Collar Crime: The Essentials (Sage), Family Violence and Criminal Justice (Elsevier, with Randy Gainey), and Crime and Elder Abuse: An Integrated Perspective (Charles C Thomas). He won the local Pinewood Derby when he was in the fourth grade.