CHAPTER 1 ' TODAY'S WHITE COLLAR CRIMEThere Ought to Be a LawWhat is White-Collar Crime?Why Does White-Collar Crime Matter?Challenges for Law Enforcement: Do You Have What it Takes to Answer the Call?What Do We Mean by Today's White-Collar Crime?Why Read this Book?Thinking Activity Set #1Reading 1-1 D. DeKieffer. Terrorist links to commercial fraud in the United States (2007)Reading 1-2 B. Heath. Katrina fraud swamps system (2007)CHAPTER 2 ' INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WHITE COLLAR CRIMEIntroductionA Brief History of the Role of Information Technology in White-Collar CrimesComputer-based Crime: A Cause for Alarm?Currency Counterfeiting: From Raised Notes to Inkjet PrintingHacking and CrackingIdentity Theft: The future is nowThinking activity set #2Reading 2-1 A. Ennis. A look at crime in the age of technology (2007)Reading 2-2 P. Carbonara.
The scam that will not die (2003)CHAPTER 3 ' The Corporate-State Corruption Connection ' Can it be Stopped?IntroductionThe Honorable Thomas E. White: Modern-day Horatio Alger or Opportunist?If All Politics are Local: The Same Can Be Said for Abuse of OfficeMarty Barnes: A Case-Study in Egoism and Egregious BehaviorTeapot Dome and Enron: Back to the Future?Nepotism: Personal Connections Over Professional Qualifications?Misuse of Government Equipment and SuppliesBriberySpotlight: Protecting Technology from the State-Corporate Corruption ParadigmThinking activity set #3Reading 3-1 C. Cray. Disaster profiteering: the flood of crony contracting following hurricane Katrina (2005)Reading 3-2 C. Cray. Meet the war profiteers (2006)CHAPTER 4: The Origins of Public Corruption Control in the United States: 1883-1969IntroductionDemocracy and CorruptionCorruption Control: A Call to ActionRoots of the Scientific Era of Corruption ControlThe Scientific Administration Model: Systematic EvaluationA Scientific Model at Work: The Beautiful Minds of Co-ConspiratorsChallenges of the Scientific Administration ModelThinking activity set #4Reading 4-1 L. Tarshis. A century of scandals (1990)Reading 4-2 E.
Kolbert. FELLOWship of the ring (2002)CHAPTER 5: The Modern Era of Public Corruption Control: The 1970s Through TodayIntroductionNixon: From Corruption Controller to Investigative TargetThe Panoptic Vision of Corruption ControlJimmy Carter: The First Panoptic PresidentThe Inspector General ProgramThe Reagan-Bush I Years: The Doldrums of Corruption ControlClinton, Reinventing Government, and the Future of Corruption ControlThe G.W. Bush Administration's Strategy for Corruption ControlChapter Summary.