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Wayward Dragon

White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China

By: Adam K. Ghazi-Tehrani,Henry N. Pontell

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Wayward Dragon

White-Collar and Corporate Crime in China

By: Adam K. Ghazi-Tehrani,Henry N. Pontell

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity. The text begins with an introduction to the topic placing it in global perspective, followed by chapters examining the importance of comparative study, corruption as a major crime in China, case studies and etiology, domestic, regional and global consequences, and concluding theoretical and policy issues that can inform future research.

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198

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

303090704X

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9783030907044

The Capacity to Punish

By: Henry N. Pontell

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The Capacity to Punish

By: Henry N. Pontell

This book examines the relationship between crime, demographic characteristics, criminal justice resources, court processing and final sanctioning outcomes at the court level in the U.S. in the context of deterrence theory. It concludes that current criminal justice practices, especially the extremely low probability of certain and severe punishment, make the deterrent effect of punishment minimal under the current system of criminal justice. Court caseloads, influenced particularly be the degree of inequality in the population, appear to be pushing down the formal penalty structures, and hence the probability of sanction. The inability of courts to produce severe and certain sanctions is also linked to the overfunding of police relative to other criminal justice agencies, especially the office of the prosecutor. Putting more cops on the beat might actually lead to further erosion of the deterrent effect of punishment, as more violators are pushed through the 'revolving door' of the courts.

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160

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Indiana University Press

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0253203368

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9780253203366

Big Money Crime

Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis

By: Kitty Calavita,Henry N. Pontell,Robert Tillman

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Big Money Crime

Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis

By: Kitty Calavita,Henry N. Pontell,Robert Tillman

An in-depth scrutiny into the American savings and loan financial crisis in the 1980s. The authors come to conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud and the leniency of the criminal justice system on these 'Gucci-clad white-collar criminals'.

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284

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520219473

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9780520219472

Prescription for Profit

How Doctors Defraud Medicaid

By: Paul Jesilow,Henry N. Pontell,Gilbert Geis

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Prescription for Profit

How Doctors Defraud Medicaid

By: Paul Jesilow,Henry N. Pontell,Gilbert Geis

In this explosive exposé of our health care system, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis uncover the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state, and private officials and extensive investigation of case files, they tell the stories of doctors who profit from abortions on women who aren't pregnant, of needless surgery, overcharging for services, and excessive testing. How can doctors, recipients of a sacred trust and sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, violate Medicaid so egregiously? The authors trace patterns of abuse to the program's inauguration in the mid 1960s, when government authorities, not individual patients, were entrusted with responsibility for payments. Determining fees and regulating treatment also became the job of government agencies, thus limiting the doctors' traditional role. Physicians continue to disagree with Medicare and Medicaid policies that infringe on their autonomy and judgment. The medical profession has not accepted the gravity or extent of some members' illegal behavior, and individual doctors continue to blame violations on subordinates and patients. In the meantime, program guidelines have grown more confusing, hamstringing efforts to detect, apprehend, and prosecute Medicaid defrauders. Failure to institute a coherent policy for fraud control in the medical benefit program has allowed self-serving and greedy practitioners to violate the law with impunity. Prescription for Profit is a shocking revelation of abuse within a once-hallowed profession. It is a book that every doctor, and every patient, needs to read this year.

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366

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Univ of California Press

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0520911830

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9780520911833

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