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ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products.   Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase.   Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code.   Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase.   -- For courses in deviance and corporate crime.   Elite Deviance includes both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause great harm. Unique in its scope, Elite Deviance covers not only corporate crime and political corruption in historical and contemporary contexts, but also the relationship between the two. Numerous current examples and case studies grab students’ interest and reinforce all major theoretical points in the book.    

Table of Contents:
1. The Nature of Elite Deviance. Scandal-Plagued America: The Bush Years as Metaphor A Theory of Elite Deviance. The Classification of Elite Deviance. The Conditions Leading to Elite Deviance. The Consequences of Elite Deviance. 2. Elite Deviance and the Higher Immorality. The Nature of the Higher Immorality. Case Study: Inequality of Wealth, Income and Power    The Relationship Between Wealth and Power Income and PowerThe Higher Immorality and the Political Economy. The Higher Immorality and Corporate Crime. Organized Crime and the Business Elite. 3. Corporate Deviance: Monopoly, Manipulation, and Fraud. The Costs of Monopolies. Price Fixing. Price Gouging. Deceptive Advertising. Fraud. Case Study: The Madoff Scandal 4. Corporate Deviance: Human Jeopardy. Individual Jeopardy. Collective Jeopardy. 5. National Defense, Multinational Corporations, and Human Rights. The Military-Industrial Complex. Deviance and Multinational Corporations. Human Rights, Multinationals, and U.S. Foreign Policy. 6. Political Corruption: Continuity and Change. Money and Politics. Corruption and Power. 7. Political Deviance. Domestic Political Deviance. International Crimes. 8. Understanding Elite Deviance. Why Elite Deviance? Elite Deviance and the Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Analysis Characteristics of Bureaucratic Structures. Image Construction and Inauthenticity. Organizational Conditions and the Production of Deviant Personalities. Links between Elite Deviance and Nonelite Deviance. Elite Deviance and Victimization. Constructionist and Objectivist Positions on Elite Deviance. 9. The Scandalization of America: The Higher Immorality in an Era of Greed. Watergate. Iran-Contra. Contragate and the Changing Nature of American Power and Corruption. The Characteristics of Contemporary Scandal. The Study of Elite Deviance. Epilogue: Economic Democracy: A Proposal to Transform Society. The Real Secret Government. America’s Main Drift. The Local Community and Social Change. Foreign Policy and Population Crisis. Why Change Must Come. Coda. Sources.   Endnotes.   Name Index.   Subject Index.  

About the Author :
David R. Simon earned a PhD in sociology from Rutgers University in 1975, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley's Alcohol Research Group in 1983-1984. Dr. Simon is the author of Elite Deviance (Tenth Edition 2012) and eight other books. He has also published over 50 scholarly articles, book chapters, and review essays. He has written over a dozen pieces in popular magazines and newspapers. He is currently retired and continues to write books and articles.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780205863716
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 431 gr
  • ISBN-10: 020586371X
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2013
  • Binding: SA
  • No of Pages: 368


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