Constructing White-Collar Crime

Joachim J. Savelsberg is Professor of Sociology and Law, and holds the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, at the University of Minnesota. Peter Bruhl is free legal counsel in the state of Bremen, German.

Based on Joachim J. Savelsberg and Peter Brühl, Politik und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht: Rationalitäten, Kommunikationen und Macht (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1988), revised, translated, and with a new chapter on the United States.

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Figures and TablesPrefacePART I- WHY STUDY WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LEGISLATION?Chapter 1- Questions, Introduction to the Case, and OverviewPART II- THEORY AND METHODS IN THE STUDY OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LEGISLATIONChapter 2- Rationalities, Communication, and Power: Theoretical Perspectives and MethodsPART III- THE CASE STUDY: FROM CLAIMS MAKING TO LEGISLATIONChapter 3- The Social Problem of Economic Crime, Claims Making, and Motivating the Political ProcessChapter 4- The Expert Commission: Developing the Claims and First ResistanceChapter 5- The Production of the Second Law Against Economic Crime: The Political SectorChapter 6- Context Structures, Situations, and Argument Structures: The Total Set of Cognitive MapsPART IV- CONCLUSIONS FROM THE CASE STUDY AND AN AMERICAN-GERMAN COMPARISONChapter 7- Rationalities, Communication, and Power: ConclusionsChapter 8- The American and German Cases: Commonalities and DifferencesReferencesIndex