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51 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc51 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime Law Soc Change (2009) 51:1-3 DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9141-5 Social and political transformations in white-collar crime scholarship: introductory notes Mary Dodge - Gilbert Geis Published online: 9 October 2008 © Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2008 This special issue of Crime, Law and Social Change highlights intellectual advances in substantive and theoretical work regarding white-collar crime. For a time at the beginning of the present century the exposure of scandalous conduct by major corporations focused public attention on this category of misdeeds and criminal behavior. But the war in Iraq deflected the public's concern onto that disastrous Mideast involvement. However, with economic woes now plaguing the United States and the world, concern is again being manifest regarding exorbitant oil company profits, obscene executive salaries, the backdating of stock options, flagrant episodes of insider trading, and the myriad of other forms of excess and law- breaking by persons who use their upper- level status to transgress the bounds of the law and morality. The idea of morality comes into play when actions that clearly are injurious fail to be included in penal codes because those who benefit from them have imposed their will on legislative bodies, typically through financial contributions to politicians. None of these manifestations of white-collar crime readily lend themselves to the fashionable, highly-sophisticated statistical models and experimental designs now in vogue in criminological circles. This special issue of Crime, Law and Social Change serves the particular purpose of spotlighting information and ideas that otherwise often fall outside the concern of more traditional criminological work. The study of white-collar crime remains deeply attached to the pioneering scholarship of Edwin H. Sutherland. Sutherland's contribution was so path-breaking and challenging that no social science writing on white-collar crime fails to attend to one or another of his views. The contribution in this issue by John Galliher and M. Dodge (E) School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, P.O. Box 173364, Campus Box 142, Denver, CO 80217, USA e-mail: mary.dodgegucdenver.edu G. Geis University of California, Irvine, CA, USA e-mail: ggeisguci.edu e Springer

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