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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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Preface	p. xi
The Nature of Elite Deviance	p. 1
Scandal-Plagued America: The Clinton Years as Metaphor	p. 1
A Theory of Elite Deviance	p. 13
The Classification of Elite Deviance	p. 33
Conditions Leading to Elite Deviance	p. 38
Consequences of Elite Deviance	p. 39
Conclusion	p. 40
Critical Thinking Exercise 1.1	p. 41
Endnotes	p. 41
Elite Deviance and the Higher Immorality	p. 47
The Nature of the Higher Immorality	p. 47
The Higher Immorality and the Political Economy	p. 55
The Higher Immorality and Corporate Crime	p. 71
Organized Crime and the Business Elite	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 84
Critical Thinking Exercise 2.1	p. 85
Endnotes	p. 86
Corporate Deviance: Monopoly, Manipulation, and Fraud	p. 91
Costs of Corporate Crime	p. 91
Penalties for Corporate Crime	p. 92
Monopolies	p. 93
Price-Fixing	p. 100
Price Gouging	p. 104
Deceptive Advertising	p. 109
Fraud	p. 113
Conclusion	p. 115
Critical Thinking Exercise 3.1	p. 116
Endnotes	p. 117
Corporate Deviance: Human Jeopardy	p. 121
Individual Jeopardy	p. 121
Collective Jeopardy	p. 142
Conclusion	p. 152
Critical Thinking Exercise 4.1	p. 153
Endnotes	p. 154
National Defense, Multinational Corporations, and Human Rights	p. 158
The Military-Industrial Complex	p. 160
Deviance and Multinational Corporations	p. 174
Human Rights, Multinationals, and U.S. Foreign Policy	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 190
Critical Thinking Exercise 5.1	p. 191
Endnotes	p. 191
Political Corruption: Continuity and Change	p. 195
Money and Politics	p. 195
Corruption and Power	p. 216
Conclusion	p. 228
Critical Thinking Exercise 6.1	p. 228
Endnotes	p. 229
Political Deviance	p. 232
Domestic Political Deviance	p. 232
International Crimes	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 256
Critical Thinking Exercise 7.1	p. 257
Endnotes	p. 258
Understanding Elite Deviance	p. 263
Why Elite Deviance?	p. 263
Elite Deviance and the Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Analysis	p. 264
Characteristics of Bureaucratic Structures	p. 271
Image Construction and Inauthenticity	p. 275
Organizational Conditions and the Production of Deviant Personalities	p. 278
Links between Elite Deviance and Nonelite Deviance	p. 281
Elite Deviance and Victimization	p. 283
Constructionist and Objectivist Positions on Elite Deviance	p. 286
Conclusion	p. 289
Critical Thinking Exercise 8.1	p. 291
Endnotes	p. 292
The Scandalization of America Higher Immorality in an Era of Greed	p. 296
Watergate	p. 300
Iran-Contra	p. 302
Contragate and the Changing Nature of American Power and Corruption	p. 308
Characteristics of Contemporary Scandal	p. 309
The Study of Elite Deviance	p. 314
Conclusion	p. 314
Critical Thinking Exercise 9.1	p. 316
Endnotes	p. 316
Epilogue: Economic Democracy: A Proposal to Transform Society	p. 319
Basic Assumptions	p. 320
General Principles	p. 322
The Planks of a Social Democratic Platform	p. 324
Implementing Economic Democracy	p. 331
Elite Deviance and Economic Democracy	p. 334
Sources	p. 340
Endnotes	p. 343
Name Index	p. 345
Subject Index	p. 357
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