Mail and Wire Fraud

Businesses today are confronted with increased tensions in the workplace, pressures by activist groups, and sophisticated means of stealing their tangible and intangible properties. Security- related responses to real or perceived threats have generated considerable legal activity and the results are often confusing and contradictory. Hannon's purpose is to make sense out of these cases by giving an overview of security-related legal exposures, then identifying the rights of the parties involved in varying situations, and analyzing the methods different courts use in balancing those rights.

Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar offenders. David Weisburd and Elin Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the criminal careers of people convicted of white-collar crimes. Weisburd and Waring uncover some surprising findings, which upset common wisdom about white-collar criminals. Their findings illustrate the misplaced emphasis of previous scholarship in focusing on the categorical distinctions between criminals and noncriminals.