Readership: Law professors, philosophers, and law and philosophy students interested in criminal law theory and moral theory; criminology, criminal justice, and sociology professors and their students with a special interest in white collar crime; and possibly law practitioners such as federal prosecutors and defense lawyers in the U.S.
Stuart P. Green, L.B. Porterie Professor of Law, Louisiana State University
"This book marks a real advance in normative theorising about the moral foundations of the criminal law: it should provoke theorists to think not just about murder, but about insider trading; not just about rape, but about tax evasion - and about the wide range of regulatory offences' whose moral content has been so under-explored. This is an important book, which opens up the vast field of 'white-collar crime' to deep normative theorising - theorising that is informed by an acute grasp of the legal issues and by a thorough philosophical grounding." - Professor Antony Duff, University of Stirling
"This is a long needed and pathbreaking consideration of white-collar crime from the perspective of a top-notch legal scholar. Stuart Green has absorbed knowledge in his own specialty and in the social sciences to provide a comprehensive and integrated understanding of behaviour that has been capturing headlines in the American media. Tough issues, long bypassed, come in for sophisticated scrutiny. I am certain that Lying, Cheating and Stealing will come to stand as a classic contribution to the study of law-breaking by the priveleged." - Professor Gilbert Geiss, University of California, Irvine
"'Mr. Green's book admirably clears away much of the conceptual underbrush surrounding the idea of white-collar crime.... "Lying, Cheating, and Stealing" is strong on moral philosophy, not least in the way it illuminates the grey areas of business conduct. ... [it] will be helpful to anyone thinking about such cases [as Kenneth Lay's].'" - Andrew Stark, Wall Street Journal, 27 July 2006
Preface Introduction I Getting Started The Meaning of 'White Collar Crime' Some Generalizations About the Moral Content of White Collar Crime A Three-Part Framework for Analysis II Defining Moral Wrongfulness Cheating Deception Stealing Coercion and Expoitation Disloyalty Promise-Breaking Disobediance A Concluding Thought on Moral Wrongfulness III Finding the Moral Content of White Collar Offenses Perjury Fraud False Statements Obstruction of Justice Bribery Extortion and Blackmail Insider Trading Tax Evasion Regulatory Offenses Conclusions
