White Collar Crime

Highlights of the First Edition:

• Materials on perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice that are extremely timely in light of political controversies that reach back to the Nixon and Clinton administrations and are still relevant today
• Careful elaboration of the different crimes of bribery, including bribery of federal officials under 18 U.S.C. section 201, bribery of state and local officials under the Mail and Wire Fraud laws and federal program bribery law, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Concise treatment of criminal Securities Fraud and Insider trading for students who have not otherwise studied Securities Regulation
• Extended treatment of the major mens rea issues in white-collar crime, as an advanced version of the subject of mens rea in the standard first-year Criminal Law course, with emphasis on such important doctrines as “deliberate ignorance” and the mental state of ”corruptly.”

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Concisely edited case excerpts in very readable form.
• Handy Appendix with texts of all major statutes covered in the book.
• Short provocative notes raising questions of jurisprudence and social philosophy around problems of overcriminalization and the meaning of the concept of “corruption.”
• Concise non-technical material on cybercrime to show how modem technology raises themes of corruption similar to those of more conditional crimes.