The reference sources listed below constitute a selected bibliography on white collar crime and related abuses. They are divided into two lists. The first list contains sources of information on specific crimes for the investigator. Each of the references in this first list is preceded by a number and is keyed to items in the glossary above. The second list contains reference sources of a general nature which can provide the investigator with background and orientation information in the white collar crime area. These latter sources are not numbered and are included to provide white collar crime units with a general reference list. All of the references in this selected bibliography are in the public domain. Most can be found in public, university, or law school libraries. Others are available from the US Government Printing Office, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, or the public agency or professional group which published them.
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REFERENCE SOURCES RELATED TO SPECIFIC CRIMES
Allen, B. “Embezzler’s Guide to the Computer,” Harvard Business Review, 53:79: July, 1975.
American Bar Association. Preventing Improper Influences on Federal Law Enforcement Agencies. (A Report of the American Bar Association Special Committee to Study Federal Law Enforcement Agencies), 1976.
“Bait Advertising Scheme Held Violation of New York False Advertising Statute,” Columbia Law Review, 59:958-961, June, 1959.
Balter, Henry G. “Plea Bargaining and the Tax Fraud Syndrome,” Taxes, 52:333, June, 1974.
“Battling the Biggest Fraud: Pyramid Operations,” Time, July 16, 1973, p . 51.
“Be Wary of Phony Business Brokers,” Changing Times, November, 1955, pp. 29-32.
Bigham, B. “Pigeon Drop: The Con Game Aimed at Older Women,” Retirement Living, 15:36-37, September, 1975.
Black, Hillel. The Watchdogs of Wall Street. New York: Morrow, 1962.
Bowley, G. F. “Law Enforcement’s Role in Consumer Protection – Consumer Protection Symposium,” Santa Clara Lawyer 14:447, Spring, 1974.
Caplin, Mortimer. “The I.R.S. Racketeers, and White Collar Crime,” American Bar Association Journal, 62:865, July, 1976.
Mary, and George Sherman. A Compendium of Bunk, or How to Spot a Con Artist. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1976.
Cressey, Donald R. Other People’s Money: A Study in the Social Psychology of Embezzlement. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1971.
“Crime in the Suites: C. Arnholt Smith’s Fraud Involving U.S. National Bank,” Forbes, 116:16, August 15, 1975.
Criminal Law: Oklahoma Credit Card Crime Act of 1970 – Dr. Leary I Presume?, Oklahoma Law Review, 28:622, Summer, 1975.
DeFranco, Edward J. Anatomy of a Scam: A Case Study of a Planned Bankruptcy by Organized Crime. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.
DeWeese, J. T., “Trojan Horse Caper and Assorted Other Computer Crimes,” Saturday Review World, 3:10, November 15, 1975.,
Dirks, Raymond L. and Leonard Gross. The Great Wall Street Scandal. New York: McGraw Hill, 1974.
Ducovny, Amram M. The Billion Dollar Swindle: Frauds Against the Elderly. New York: Fleet Press Corporation, 1969.
Edelhertz, Herbert. The Nature, Impact, and Prosecution of White collar Crime. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970. Stock #027-000-00063-1.
Equity Funding, Anatomy of a Swindle, Fortune Magazine, August, 1973. Federal Trade Commission. Beware of Bait and Switch and Phony Business Opportunities.
Federal Trade Commission. Franchise Business Risks. Consumer Bulletin No.4.
Federal Trade Commission. Franchising. Report of Ad Hoc Committee1969.
Federal Trade Commission. Guides Against Bait Advertising. Adopted November 24, 1959.
Federal Trade Commission. Guides Against Debt Collection Deception. Adopted June 30, 1965, as amended June 14, 1968.
Federal Trade Commission. Truth in Lending and the Advertisement of Real Estate Credit. Division of Special Projects, Staff Guide.
Finch, James H. “Espionage and Theft Using Computers,” Assets Protection, Winter, 1976, pp. 32-38.
Geis, Gilbert. “Deterring Corporate Crime, Corporate Responsibility,” Ralph Nader and Mark Green, eds., New York: Grossman, in press.
Givens. “Roadblocks to Remedy in Consumer Fraud Litigation,1I Case Western Law Review, 24:144, 149-150, 1972.
Gordon, Leland J. Weights, Measures, and the Consumer. Third National Survey of State Weights .and Measures Legislation, Administration, and Enforcement. (By mail from CU, 256 Washington St., Mt. Vernon, NY 10550), 1969.
Grimes, John A. “Equity Funding: Fraud by Computer,” American Federationist, 80:7, December, 1973.
Hoover, J. Edgar. “Investigation of Fraudulent Bankruptcies by the FBI.” New York Certified Public Accountant, 32:187-94, March, 1962.
Hutchison, R. A. “Looting of 1.0.S.,” Fortune Magazine, 87:126-130, March, 1973.
I.A.C.P. Training Key #241. Insurance Fraud. A publication of the Professional Standards Division, Gaithersburg, Md., 1976.
“Income Tax Evasion: Dealing with IRS Special Agents and Prosecutors,” Law Bulletin, 10:437, June, 1974.
Insurance Crime Prevention Institute , A Primer on Insurance Fraud, (1971), (from the Insurance Crime Prevention Institute, 21 Charles St., Westport, Conn. 06880).
Kefauver, Estes. In a Few Hands – Monopoly Power in America. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1965.
“Kicking Back on Title Insurance: There Are a Few Defenders, But Outlawing the Practice is a Tough Political JOD,” Business Week, April 13, 1974, p. 97.
Kossack, Nathaniel E. and Sheldon Davidson. “Bankruptcy Fraud: The Unholy Alliance Moves In,” Credit and Financial Management) 68:20-24, 68:28-32, Apr;1, 1966, and May, 1966.
Kossack, Nathaniel E. “Scam: The Planned Bankruptcy Racket,” New York Certified Public Accountant, 35:417-423, June, 1965.
Kostelanetz, Boris. Tax Frauds. New York: Practicing Law Institute, 1975.
Kwitney, Jonathan. The Fountain Pen Conspiracy. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1973.
Leibholz, Stephen W. and Louis D. Wilson. Users Guide to Computer Crime. Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1974.
Lewis, Howard and Martha. The Medical Offenders. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Lofts, Robert L. and Nancy C. Tax Crimes: Evasion of Another’s Tax and Defenses. Washington: Tax Management, 1973.
Maltz, Michael D., Herbert Edelhertz and Harvey H. Chamberlain. Law Enforcement Guide: Combatting Cigarette Smuggling. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1976. (From the Organized Crime Desk, Enforcement Division, Office of Regional Operations, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.)
Mathews, Arthur F. Enforcement and Litigation Under the Federal Securities Law. New York: Practicing Law Institute, 1975.
Mathews, Arthur F. “Criminal Prosecutions Under the Federal Securities Laws and Related Statutes: The Nature and Development of SEC Criminal
Cases, The George Washington Law Review, 39: 901, July, 1971.
Maxa, Rudy. Dare to be Great. New York: Morrow, 1977.
McKnight, Gerald. Computer Crime: How a New Breed of Criminals is Making Off With Millions. New York: Walker, 1974.
Menkus, Belden. “Computerized Information Systems are Vulnerable to Fraud and Embezzlement,” CPA-Journal, 43:617-619, July, 1973.
Miller, Charles A. Economic Crime: A Prosecutor’s Hornbook. A Project of the National District Attorneys Association, July, 1974.
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death. New York: Simon and Schuster , 1963.
Nash, J. Robert. Hustlers and Con Men: An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Garnes. New York: M. Evans, distributed by Lippincott, 1976.
National Association of Attorneys General, Committee on the Office of Attorney General. State Antitrust Laws and Their Enforcement, 1974.
National Better Business Bureau, Inc. Debt Adjuster – Boon or Burden? Unregulated Pro-rating Companies Are Subject of Many Complaints. New York,1955.
National Association of Credit Management. Preventing Business Fraud. New York, 1966.
New Mexico’s War on Land Frauds,Business Week, November 17, 1975, p. 49-50.
New York State Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations. Report. Legislative Document No. 26, Albany, N.Y., 1954. Report . . Legislative Document No. 70, Albany, N.Y., 1955.
Official Report From Washington – Antitrust and the Proposed Revision of the Federal Criminal Law,1l ABA Antitrust Law Journal, 43:393, 1974.
Ryan, Liam. “How Insurance Firms Fight Fraudulent Accident Claims,.” Parade Magazine, September 19, 1976, pp. 24-26.
Parker, Donn P. Crime by Computer. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1976.
Parker, Donn P. “Profile of a Computer Criminal,” Data Management, July, 1973, pp. 32-34.
Parker, Donn P., Susan Nycum, and S. Stephen Oura. Computer Abuse. Menlo Park, California: Stanford Research Institute, 1973.
Pashigian, B. P. lion Control of Crime and Bribery, Journal of Legal Studies, 4:311, June, 1975.
Paulson, Morton C. The Great Land Hustle. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1972.
Pennsylvania Crime Commission. Report on Organized Crime. Office of the Attorney General, 1970.
Pratt, Lester A. Bank Frauds, Their Detection and Prevention. New York: Ronald, 1965.
President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Task Force Report: Crime and Its Impact – An Assessment. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967.
Prohibiting Pyramid Sales Schemes: County, State, and Federal Approaches to a Problem,Buffalo Law Review, 24:877, Spring, 1975.
Randall, Donald A. and Arthur P. Glickman. The Great American Auto Repair Robbery. New York: Charterhouse, 1972.
Reid, Robert H. American Degree Mills. Washington, D.C.: The American Council on Education, 1959.
Robertson, Wyndham. “Those Daring Young Con Men of Equity Funding,” Fortune, August, 1973, pp. 80-85.
“The Role of Michigan’s Attorney General in Consumer and Environmental Protection,” Michigan Law Review 72:1030, 1974.
Russell, F. “Bubble, Bubble, No Toil, No Trouble: C. Ponzi’s Investment Swindles, ” American Heritage, 24: 74-80, February, 1973.
Skinner, Samuel K. “Corruption, Report of the National Conference on Organized Crime.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, October, 1975, pp. 50-52.
Soble, Ronald L. and Robert E. Dallos. The Impossible Dream. The Equity Funding Story: The Fraud of the Century. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
U.S. Congress. House Committee on Government Operations. Crimes Against Banking Institutions: Eighteenth Report (88:2), H. Rep. No. 1147. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 20, 1964.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Legal and Monetary Affairs. Crimes Against Banking Institutions: Hearing, October 15, 1963. (88:1.) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963.
U.S. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime. Conversion of Worth- less Securities into Cash. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973. Stock #5271-00339.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on
Long Term Care. Nursing Home Care in the U.S.: Failure in Public Policy. Supporting Paper, Drugs in Nursing Homes: Misuse, High Costs, and Kickbacks.D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, January, 1975.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly. Frauds and Quackery Affecting the Older Citizen: Hearings, January 15-17, 1963. 3 pts.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly. Health Frauds and Quackery: Hearings, 4 pts. (88:2). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly. Interstate Mail Order Land Sales: Hearing, May 18-20, 1964. 3 pts. (88:2). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly. Pre-need Burial Services: Hearing, May 19,1964. (88:2) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging, Subcommittee on Long- Term Care. Medicare and Medicaid Frauds. 4 pts. Pt. 1, Hearing, September 26, 1975. Part 2, Hearing, November 13, 1975. Part 3, Hearing, December 5, 1975. Part 4, February 16, 1976. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Long-Term Care. Fraud and Abuse Among Practitioners Participating in the Medicaid Program – A Staff Report. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, August, 1976.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Criminal Redistribution Systems and Their Economic Impact on Small Business. Based on Hearings before the Committee May 1 and 2, 1973, April 30 and May 2, 1974. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,1974.
Vaughan, Diane and Giovanna Carlo. liThe Appliance Repairman: A Study of Victim-Responsiveness and Fraud,” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, July, 1975, pp. 153-161.
GENERAL REFERENCE SOURCES
American Bar Association. “A Symposium, White collar Crime,” The American Criminal Law Review, Summer, 1973.
‘Bailey, F. Lee, and Henry Rothblatt. Defending Business and White Collar Crime, Federal and State. Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Co-op Publishing Company, 1969.
Blum, Richard. Deceivers and Deceived. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1972.
Butler, Robert N. “Why Are Older Consumers So Susceptible?”, Geriatrics, December, 1968, pp. 83-88.
Caplovitz, David. “The Merchant and the Low Income Consumer,” in The White collar Criminal, edited by Gilbert Geis, New York: Atherton Press, 1968.
Caplovitz, David. The Poor Pay More: Consumer Practices of Low-Income Families. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1963.
Carey, Mary and George Sherman. A Compendium of Bunk or How to Spot a Con Artist. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1976.
Carper, Jean. Not with a Gun. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973.
Chamber of Commerce of the United States. White Collar Crime, Everyone’s Problem, Everyone’s Loss. 1974.
Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Deskbook on Organized Crime. 1972.
Clinard, Marshall B. The Black Market: A StUd) of White Collar Crime. Montclair, N.J.: Patterson Smith, 1972 (paperback edition.
Coates, Joseph F. “The Future of Crime in the United States from Now to the Year 2000,” Policy Sciences, 3:27-45,1972.
Cressey, Donald R. Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operation of Organized Crime in America. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.
Curnow, David P. “Economic Crimes: A High Standard of Care,” Federal Bar Journal, 35:21, 1976.
Curtis, S. J. “Focus on the Future: A Look at Business Crime Today and Tomorrow,” Police, 8:25-27, November-December, 1963; January-February, 1964.
Edelhertz, Herbert. The Nature, Impact and Prosecution of White collar Crime. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970. Stock #027-000-00063-1.
“FBI Investigation of Fraud,” Journal of Accountancy, 120:34-39, July, 1965.
Federal Trade Commission Staff Report. Economic Report on Food Chain Selling Practices in D.C. and San Francisco. 1969.
Finn, Peter and Alan R. Hoffman. .Exemplary Projects: Prosecution of Economic Crime. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.
Ge;s, Gilbert. “Criminal Penalties for Corporate Criminals,” Criminal Law Bulletin, August, 1972, pp. 377-92.
Geis, Gilbert and Herbert Edelhertz. “Criminal Law and Consumer Fraud: A Socio-legal view,” American Criminal Law Review, 11 :989, 1973.
Geis, Gilbert. “Victimization Patterns in White Collar Crime,” in Victimology, Vol. 5, Exploiters and Exploited: Dynamics of Victimization, I. Drapkin and E. Viano, Eds., Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1975, pp. 89-105.
Geis, Gilbert. The White Collar Criminal. New York: Atherton Press, 1968.
Geis, Gilbert. “White-Collar Crime,” in Handbook of Criminology, Daniel Glaser, ed., New York: Rand McNally, in press.
George, B. James, Jr. White Collar Crimes: Defense and Prosecution. New York: Practicing Law Institute, 1971.
Gibney, Frank. The Operators. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960.
Glick, Rush and Robert S. Newsom. Fraud Investigation Fundamentals for Police. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1974.
Hartung, Frank E. “The White collar Thief,.”in Delinguency, Crime, and Social Process, D. R. Cressey and David A. Ward, eds., New York: Harper and Row, 1969.
Horn, J. “Portrait of an Arrogant Crook: Studying White collar Criminals and Their Victims,” Psychology Today, April, 1976.
Jester, Jean C. An Analysis of Organized Crime’s Infiltration into Legitimate Business. Huntsville, Texas: Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavioral Sciences, Sam Houston State University, 1974.
Kahn, E. J. fraud. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Kahn, E. J. Fraud: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Some of the Fools and Knaves It Has Known. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Kwan, Quon Y. and others. “The Role of Criminalistics in White Collar Crime,” Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 62:437, 1971.
Langway, L. and P. Moreland. “Patent Hustle: Idea Promoters Cited by the FTC for Consumer Fraud,” Newsweek, September 8, 1975.
Lipson, Milton. On Guard: The Business of Private Security. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1975.
Maurer, David W. The Big Con. New York: Bobbs Merill Co., 1962.
Maurer, David W. The American Confidence Man. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1974.
Miller, Charles A. Economic Crime: A Prosecutor’s Hornbook. A project of the National District Attorneys Association, July, 1974.
Morgenthau, Robert N. “Equal Justice and the Problem of White Collar Crime,” The Conference Board Record, August, 1969, pp. 17-20.
Nash, J. Robert. Hustlers and Con Men: An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games. New York: M. Evans, dist. by Lippincott, 1976.
National Association of Attorneys General. Prosecuting Organized Crime, 1974.
National Association of Attorneys General. “Help, Help! Or Why FTC Seeks
Aid of the Attorneys General in Combating Consumer Deception and Unfair Competition,” by Gale P. Gotschall, September 2,1966. Reprinted: Congressional Record, September 30, 1966: 23729-30.
National District Attorneys Association. Fighting the $40 Billion Rip-Off: An Annual Report from the Economic Crime Project, U.S. Dept. of Justice, L.E.A.A., 1976.
National Retired Teachers Association/American Association of Retired Persons. Proceedings of the National Forum on the Consumer Concerns of Older Americans. Washington, D.C.: Consumer Office, NRTA/AARP, 1975.
Newman, Donald J. “White Collar Crime, and Contemporary Problems,” 37:735.
Office of Consumer Affairs. Executive Office of the President. Consumer Education Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, September, 1971.
Office of the United States Attorney General, Southern District of New York. A Handbook on How to Combat Crime in the Business World. December, 1972.
Ogren, Robert W. “The Ineffectiveness of the Criminal Sanction in Fraud and Corruption Cases: Losing the Battle Against White collar Crime,” American Criminal Law Review, November, 1973.
President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Task Force Report: Organized Crime. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing – Office, 1967.
President’s Commission of Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Task Force Report: Crime and Its Impact – An Assessment. Washington, D.C.: U.S: – Government Printing Office, 1967.
Prior, James T. “White Collar Crime: Nemesis of Business,” New Jersey Business, 20:30, September, 1973.
Reckless, Walter C. The Crime Problem. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1973, 5th edition. (Chapter 13: White Collar Crime.)
The Role of California’s Attorney General and District Attorneys in Protecting the Consumer, University of California Davis Law Review, 4:35, 1971.
The Role of Michigan’s Attorney General in Consumer and Environmental Protection, Michigan Law Review 72:1030,1974.
David and Bruce C. Throne. Criminal Consumer Fraud: A Victim Oriented Analysis,Michigan Law Review, March, 1976, pp. 661-708.
Seymour, Whitney. Social and Ethical Considerations in Assessing White Collar Crime, American Criminal Law Review 11 :821, 1972.
Steele, Eric H., Fraud, Dispute, and the Consumer: Responding to Consumer Complaints, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 123:1107-86, May, 1975. Reprinted: Research Contributions of the American Bar Foundation, No.4, 1975.
Sutherland, Edwin H. White Collar Crime. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961.
Tompkins, Dorothy Campbell. White Collar Crime – A Bibliography. Berkeley, California: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1967.
U.S. Department of Commerce. Crimes Against Business, A Management Perspective. Proceedings of Seminars Held in Los Angeles, California, February 3, 1976, and San Francisco, California, February 5, 1976. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, May, 1976.
White Collar Crime: Huge Economic and Moral Drain, Congressional Quarterly, May 7, 1971.
