Beschreibung:
Invisible Crimes is an edited volume containing a collection of articles from a distinguished panel of academics. The book explores many features of 'invisible' crimes and in doing so provides numerous examples of hidden crimes and victimisations. The book will be invaluable to students of criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It will also inspire academics from a range of disciplines to update, rewrite and offer new courses on neglected crimes and victimisations.
Includes distinguished panel of academicsOffers new data as well as alternative ways of looking at crime and victimisationVery readableUnusual, in that material contributed from a variety of disciplines is not normally found in one book
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART 1: THE NATURE OF INVISIBLE CRIMES The Features of Invisible Crimes; V.Jupp, P.Davies & P.Francis White Collar Crime: An Overview and Discussion; H.Croall Crime and Work Connections: Criminals at Work and 'Invisibility'; P.Davies & V.Jupp PART 2: TYPES OF CRIMES AND THEIR VICTIMS Health and Safety Crimes (In)visibility and the Problem of 'Knowing'; S.Tombs Cyber-crimes: New Wine, No Bottles?; D.Wall PART 3: REGULATION AND CONTROL Regulating Fraud Revisited; M.Levi Regulating the Invisible? The Case of Workplace Illicit Drugs Misuse; P.Francis & P.Wynarczyk Watching the Workers: Crime, CCTV and the Workplace; M.McCahill & C.Norris Making Visible the Invisible? Some Concluding Comments ; P.Francis, P.Davies & V.Jupp Index