Introduction

Abstract

There is a wealth of literature on white-collar crime (Sutherland, 1949; Geis, 1967; Box, 1983; Braithwaite, 1985; Tombs and Whyte, 2003; Rothe, 2006b; Gobert and Punch, 2007) corporate crime (Sutherland, 1948; Clinard and Yeager, 1980; Kramer, 1982; Braithwaite, 1984; Michalowski and Kramer, 1987; Slapper and Tombs, 1999); and state crime (Quinney, 1977; Chambliss, 1989; Friedrichs, 1998; Barak, 1991; Chambliss and Zatz, 1993; Ross, 2000; Whyte, 2003; Green and Ward, 2004; Jamieson and McEvoy, 2005; Green, 2005; Rothe, 2006a; Ross and Rothe, 2008) with some reference to state capture (Hellman et al., 2000; Kaufmann et al., 2000), which covers a range of specific sociological, political and cultural issues. The aim of this book is not to revisit all of these subjects, particularly white-collar crime, unless relevant; instead, our focus is on the investigation, enforcement and governance of corruption, with reference to private sector corporate crime, state crime and state capture.