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Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Ed. by Lawrence M. Salinger. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2004. 2 vols. $295 (ISBN 0-7619-3004-3).
You hear about them on the nightly news-corporate scandals, sophisticated accounting schemes, and the whistleblowers who have had enough. From Martha Stewart on the courthouse steps to CEOs being led in handcuffs from their plush offices, the heat has been turned up on white-collar crime. The misuse of investors' life savings shocks and scares us. Sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland coined the phrase "white-collar crime" in 1939, and criminologists continue to study the link between power and corruption.
Lawrence Salinger's Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime is an impressive two-volume reference work in a class by itself. Want to know the difference between a Ponzi and a pyramid scheme? How about a concise explanation of...