White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using opportunity perspective, the authors uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue without being reductive in their treatment of the topic.

Preface to the Third Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgements. Part I-White-Collar Crime: Introduction and Overview. Chapter 1 - What Is White-Collar Crime? Chapter 2 - Who is the White-Collar Offender? Part II-Criminological Theory and the Opportunity Perspective. Chapter 3 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: Traditional Criminological Theories. Chapter 4 - Explaining White-Collar Crime: The Opportunity Perspective. Part III-Applying the Opportunity Perspective to White-Collar Crime. Chapter 5 - Financial Crimes in Health Care, Mortgages, Securities, and Markets. Chapter 6 - Corporate Violence: Environmental, Workplace, and Manufacturing Offenses. Part IV-The Symbolic Construction and Social Distribution of Opportunities. Chapter 7 - The Symbolic Construction of Opportunity: Neutralization, Moral Disengagement, and Normalization of Deviance. Chapter 8 - The Social Distribution of Opportunity: Class, Gender, and Race. Part V-Control, Prevention, and the Future of White-Collar Crime. Chapter 9 - Legal Controls: The Criminal Justice, Regulatory, and Civil Justice Systems. Chapter 10 - Opportunities and Situational Prevention of White-Collar Crime: Using Legal and Extralegal Controls. Chapter 11 - Opportunities and the Future of White-Collar Crime. References. Index.