Trusted Criminals or Financial Markets and Institutions

Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society

Author: David O Friedrichs

This book focuses on a key topic in crime and justice. The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series has been developed to provide in-depth analysis of important questions in criminal justice, new controversies in the operation of the criminal justice system, and challenging or unusual perspectives on crime and justice.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Discovery of White Collar Crime	1
2	Studying White Collar Crime and Assessing Its Costs	32
3	Corporate Crime	57
4	Occupational Crime and Avocational Crime	89
5	Governmental Crime: State Crime and Political White Collar Crime	116
6	State-Corporate Crime, Crimes of Globalization, and Finance Crime	144
7	Enterprise Crime, Contrepreneurial Crime, and Technocrime	168
8	Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts	191
9	Law and the Social Control of White Collar Crime	218
10	Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime	242
11	Prosecuting, Defending, and Adjudicating White Collar Crime	269
12	Responding to the Challenge of White Collar Crime	296
App. A	White Collar Crime Films	319
App. B	White Collar Crime and the World Wide Web	322
	References	325
	Subject Index	395
	Name Index	407

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Financial Markets and Institutions

Author: Frederic S Mishkin

 
In Financial Markets and Institutions, best-selling authors Mishkin and Eakins provide a practical introduction to prepare readers for today’s changing landscape of financial markets and institutions. A unifying framework uses a few core principles to organize readers' thinking then examines the models as real-world scenarios from a practitioner’s perspective. By analyzing these applications, readers develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills necessary to respond to challenging situations in their future careers.

Introduction: Why Study Financial Markets and Institutions?; Overview of the Financial System. Fundamentals of Financial Markets: What Do Interest Rates Mean and What Is Their Role in Valuation?; Why Do Interest Rates Change?; How Do Risk and Term Structure Affect Interest Rates?; Are Financial Markets Efficient? Central Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy: Structure of Central Banks and the Federal Reserve System; Conduct of Monetary Policy: Tools, Goals, Strategy, and Tactics. Financial Markets: The Money Markets; The Bond Market; The Stock Market; The Mortgage Markets; The Foreign Exchange Market; The International Financial System. Fundamentals of Financial Institutions: Why Do Financial Institutions Exist?; What Should Be Done About Conflicts of Interest? A Central Issue in Business Ethics. The Financial Institutions Industry: Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions; Commercial Banking Industry: Structure and Competition; Savings Associations and Credit Unions; Banking Regulation; The Mutual Fund Industry; Insurance Companies and Pension Funds; Investment Banks, Security Brokers and Dealers, andVenture Capital Firms. The Management of Financial Institutions: Risk Management in Financial Institutions; Hedging with Financial Derivatives. On the Web: Finance Companies.

For all readers interested in financial markets and institutions.