Occupational Crime
By: Gerald Mars
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781315193854; 9781351759335; 9781351759311
Subjects: White collar crimes; Employee crimes; Corporations; Corrupt practices; Crimes en col blanc; Criminalité en milieu de travail; Sociétés; Pratiques déloyales
Description: "This title was first publishde in 2001. Occupational crime is found in the whole range of occupations and at all levels. Despite the fact that activities are widespread and well known, the area is blurred by contradictory perceptions, denials and arguments over definition. This volume presents influential essays on the topic."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Theories, Motives and Meanings --; title: chapter [1] Perks, Pilferage, and the Fiddle --; title: The Historical Structure of Invisible Wages 1  -- Jason Ditton; title: chapter [2] Crime at work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft 1  -- Stuart Henry Gerald Mars; title: chapter [3] Employee deviance  -- Gerald Mars; title: chapter [4] Employee Theft as Social Control *  -- James Tucker; title: chapter [5] Brit. J. Criminol. Vol. 27 No. 2 Spring 1987 Garment Workers: Perceptions of Inequity and Employee Theft  -- Edward W. Sieh; title: chapter [6] Employee Theft as a Reaction to Underpayment Inequity: The Hidden Cost of Pay Cuts  -- Jerald Greenberg; title: chapter [7] Blue-Collar Theft: Conceptions of Property, Attitudes Toward Pilfering, and Work Group Norms in a Modern Industrial Plant  -- Donald N.M. Horning; title: chapter [8] The Interlocking of Official and Unofficial Reward  -- Melville Dalton; title: chapter [9] ANNALS, AAPSS, 493, September 1987 The Political Economy of Informal Economies  -- Stuart Henry; title: part, II Cases and Comparative Contexts --; title: chapter [10] Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop  -- Donald Roy; title: chapter [11] Dock pilferage A case study in occupational theft --; title: chapter [12] On River Plunder  -- P. Colquhoun; title: chapter [13] A Historical Document of Ramesside Age  -- T. Eric Peet; title: chapter [14] deviance in the fast-food restaurant: correlates of employee theft, altruism, and counterproductivity  -- Richard C. Hollinger Karen B. Slora William Terris; title: chapter [15] Employee Theft in the Restaurant Trade: Forms of Ripping off by Waiters at Work  -- Richard Hawkins; title: chapter [16] Why you may be dissatisfied with garage servicing --; title: chapter [17] ANNALS, AAPSS, 493, September 1987 The Second Economy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe  -- Steven L. Sampson; title: chapter [18] Soviet Studies, vol. XXXV, no. 4, October 1983, pp. 546-560 The Cultural Bases of Soviet Georgia's Second Economy  -- Gerald Mars Yochanan Altman; title: part, III Managerial Responses --; title: chapter [19] A Little Larceny Can Do a Lot For Employee Morale --; title: chapter [20] Integrity Testing for Personnel Selection: An Overview  -- John W. Jones William Terris; title: chapter [21] How to Measure Employee Reliability  -- Joyce Hogan Robert Hogan; title: chapter [22] Working Under the Influence (WUI): Correlates of Employees' Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs*  -- Richard C. Hollinger; title: chapter [23] Security Journal 7 (1996) 61-70 Managing losses in the retail store: A comparison of loss prevention activity in the United States and Great Britain -- Joshua Barofield Richard C. Hollinger.