The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime
Subtitle: The Perfect Storm?
Contributors: Ebook Library
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781781001004
Description: 'In this well-researched and thoughtful new book, Nic Ryder makes a strong case for thinking more about the role of white collar crime in causing the financial crisis, and why prosecution has not been a bigger part (particularly in the UK) of the authorities' responses to it.'- Peter Cartwright, University of NottinghamConcentrating on the relationship between the 2007 financial crisis and white-collar crime in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom this unique book asserts that such activity was an important variable that contributed towards the crisis. It also reveals a num
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The financial crisis: An alternative interpretation - Part I; 3. The financial crisis: An alternative interpretation - Part II; 4. United States of America - Policy, legislative, regulatory and enforcement responses; 5. United Kingdom - Policy, legislative, regulatory and enforcement responses; 6. Conclusions and recommendations; Bibliography; Index