1st Edition

White-Collar Defendants and the Legal Process Performance, Knowledge and Transformation

228 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a detailed socio-legal examination of the experiences, perceptions, and responses of individual white-collar defendants following the criminal trial process. White-collar crime is defined both in an offense-based perspective and an offender-based perspective. The offense-based perspective focuses on non-violent acts for financial gain, while the offender-based perspective... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Public Performance and the Integral Inconvenience of Legal Process

3. Lawyer Knowledge, Professional Advantage, and Performance

4. Guilt, Seriousness and Deferral of Scrutiny

5. Direct Public Participation in White-Collar Censure

6. Legal Process and Reflection: Redemptive Autobiography and White-Collar Offenders

7. Evaluating Defendant Perception: Reactions to Loss of Trust 

8 . Organizational Deviance and an Enduring Example of Trial by Media

9. Deconstructing Denial: The Complexities of Executive Misconduct

10.Conclusion

Biography

Petter Gottschalk is Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. After completing his education at Technische Universität Berlin, Dartmouth College, MIT, and Henley Management College, he took on executive positions in technology enterprises for 20 years before joining academia. Dr. Gottschalk has published extensively on knowledge management, intelligence strategy, police investigations, white-collar crime, and fraud examinations.

Christopher Hamerton is Programme Director in Criminology and Law at City St George’s, University of London, United Kingdom. Educated at the universities of Oxford and Southampton, he holds degrees in law, criminal justice, and history. In addition, he is a Barrister of the Middle Temple and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Linnean Society of London.  Dr. Hamerton is an interdisciplinary and comparative scholar whose research and writing primarily focuses on socio-legal and criminological perspectives on organizational deviance and crime.