White-collar crime or just risky business?: the role of fraud in major financial debacles

This paper considers the role of fraud in three major financial debacles; the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, the Orange County, California bankruptcy of 1994, and the U.S. corporate and accounting scandals of 2002. Using concepts, theories and data drawn from the criminological literature on...

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Main Author: Pontell, Henry N. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2005
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2005, Volume: 42, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 309-324
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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