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Elite Deviance

ISBN: 9780205164608 | 0205164609
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Pub. Date: 7/1/1995

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SummaryTable of Contents
Scandal in contemporary U.S. life is an institutional sociological phenomenon. It is not due primarily to psychopathological and/or biopathological variables. Rather, it's built into the fabric of U.S. institutions, which means that scandals will occur regularly. This is the only book on white-collar crime to take a holistic view of the subject. The book traces the causes of elite deviance to the structure of power and wealth in the United States, including both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause great harm. The book is unique in its scope, covering not only corporate crime and political corruption in historical and contemporary context, but the relationship between the two as well. The author systematically examines the nation's most serious scandals, including the JFK assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Savings and Loan scandal, crimes of the Bush administration, scandals of the Clinton Administration, the Waco raid, and others. Anyone with an interest in scandals-sociologists, criminologists, law enforcement professionals, and others.
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Prefacep. xi
The Nature of Elite Deviancep. 1
Scandal-Plagued America: The Clinton Years as Metaphorp. 1
A Theory of Elite Deviancep. 13
The Classification of Elite Deviancep. 33
Conditions Leading to Elite Deviancep. 38
Consequences of Elite Deviancep. 39
Conclusionp. 40
Critical Thinking Exercise 1.1p. 41
Endnotesp. 41
Elite Deviance and the Higher Immoralityp. 47
The Nature of the Higher Immoralityp. 47
The Higher Immorality and the Political Economyp. 55
The Higher Immorality and Corporate Crimep. 71
Organized Crime and the Business Elitep. 75
Conclusionp. 84
Critical Thinking Exercise 2.1p. 85
Endnotesp. 86
Corporate Deviance: Monopoly, Manipulation, and Fraudp. 91
Costs of Corporate Crimep. 91
Penalties for Corporate Crimep. 92
Monopoliesp. 93
Price-Fixingp. 100
Price Gougingp. 104
Deceptive Advertisingp. 109
Fraudp. 113
Conclusionp. 115
Critical Thinking Exercise 3.1p. 116
Endnotesp. 117
Corporate Deviance: Human Jeopardyp. 121
Individual Jeopardyp. 121
Collective Jeopardyp. 142
Conclusionp. 152
Critical Thinking Exercise 4.1p. 153
Endnotesp. 154
National Defense, Multinational Corporations, and Human Rightsp. 158
The Military-Industrial Complexp. 160
Deviance and Multinational Corporationsp. 174
Human Rights, Multinationals, and U.S. Foreign Policyp. 179
Conclusionp. 190
Critical Thinking Exercise 5.1p. 191
Endnotesp. 191
Political Corruption: Continuity and Changep. 195
Money and Politicsp. 195
Corruption and Powerp. 216
Conclusionp. 228
Critical Thinking Exercise 6.1p. 228
Endnotesp. 229
Political Deviancep. 232
Domestic Political Deviancep. 232
International Crimesp. 252
Conclusionp. 256
Critical Thinking Exercise 7.1p. 257
Endnotesp. 258
Understanding Elite Deviancep. 263
Why Elite Deviance?p. 263
Elite Deviance and the Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Analysisp. 264
Characteristics of Bureaucratic Structuresp. 271
Image Construction and Inauthenticityp. 275
Organizational Conditions and the Production of Deviant Personalitiesp. 278
Links between Elite Deviance and Nonelite Deviancep. 281
Elite Deviance and Victimizationp. 283
Constructionist and Objectivist Positions on Elite Deviancep. 286
Conclusionp. 289
Critical Thinking Exercise 8.1p. 291
Endnotesp. 292
The Scandalization of America Higher Immorality in an Era of Greedp. 296
Watergatep. 300
Iran-Contrap. 302
Contragate and the Changing Nature of American Power and Corruptionp. 308
Characteristics of Contemporary Scandalp. 309
The Study of Elite Deviancep. 314
Conclusionp. 314
Critical Thinking Exercise 9.1p. 316
Endnotesp. 316
Epilogue: Economic Democracy: A Proposal to Transform Societyp. 319
Basic Assumptionsp. 320
General Principlesp. 322
The Planks of a Social Democratic Platformp. 324
Implementing Economic Democracyp. 331
Elite Deviance and Economic Democracyp. 334
Sourcesp. 340
Endnotesp. 343
Name Indexp. 345
Subject Indexp. 357
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