Robert Tillman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3685909 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Tillman |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Tillman |
| ASSINATURA | TILLMAN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | St. John's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6843-2518 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
In-your-face Watergate
The Price Is Not Right
This chapter presents the argument that financialization, as a broad economic trend, has increased the opportunities for financial crime among firms both within and outside the financial services industry. The growth of the financial services industry, increasing dependence of many economies on financial services, increasing focus on share value by firms, and dramatic increases in compensation within the financial services industry have all contr…
Policing the Markets
Abandoned Consumers
This paper presents a case study of frauds committed by offshore companies in the California auto insurance market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The opportunities for these crimes were created by two factors: the departure of legitimate insurance companies from the market and the adoption of deregulatory policies by state regulators. The case study illustrates some of the consequences of the increasingly common situation in the US in which c…
Global Pirates
In 1990, a congressional subcommittee warned of knaves and buccaneers in the insurance industry-unlicensed and largely unregulated companies that operate out of countries like Antigua and the Cayman Islands and sell hundreds of millions of dollars in worthless insurance policies to unsuspecting Americans every year. Increasingly, when a fire, car accident, or medical emergency strikes, policyholders suddenly find themselves victims of a global co…
Paying for Alternative Medicine
In the early 1990s, Americans spent an estimated $27 billion on alternative medical treatments. However, most of those expenditures were paid out of pocket rather than by health insurers. This article reviews empirical studies of third-party coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the factors behind the reluctance of health insurers to provide benefits for those treatments. This reluctance is based on three principal factors:…
Broken Promises
Field of Schemes
This article uses case studies to investigate the theft of employee health benefits, a crime most prevalent in the small firm segment of the health insurance market. We argue that this phenomenon reveals new, emerging economic contexts for white-collar crime that need to be conceptualized. Conventional theories of white-collar crime typically focus on corporate settings in well-institutionalized markets. However, the wave of health insurance frau…
Big Money Crime
At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions ab…
Profit Without Honor
1. Introduction. 2. Crimes Against Consumers. 3. Unsafe Products. 4. Environmental Crime. 5. Institutional Corruption: Mass Media and Religion. 6. Securities Fraud. 7. Fiduciary Fraud: Crime in the Banking, Insurance, and Pension Fund Industries. 8. Crimes by the Government. 9. Corruption of Public Officials. 10. Medical Crime. 11. Computer Crime. 12. Conclusions
Big Money Crime
At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions ab…
The Savings and Loan Debacle, Financial Crime, and the State
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s was one of the worst financial disasters of the twentieth century. We argue here that much financial fraud of the sort that contributed to this debacle constitutes 'collective embezzlement,' and that this collective embezzlement may be the prototypical corporate crime of the late twentieth century. We further argue that the state may have a different relationship to this kind of financial fraud than to man…
Is Justice “Collar‐blind”
The question of punishment of white‐collar criminals is addressed in this paper through an examination of sanctions imposed on health care providers convicted of defrauding California's Medicaid “Medi‐Cal” system. Quantitative data were collected from Medi‐Cal case files and, for comparative purposes, from a statewide data base maintained by the California Bureau of Criminal Statistics for grand theft arrestees. Qualitative data comprising interv…
The Size of the “Criminal Population”
The recent emphasis in criminological theory and research on “chronic offenders” assumes that involvement in crime is concentrated among a small group of offenders rather than being widespread in the population. To address this question, this study employs a longitudinal data base on criminal histories to estimate the prevalence of arrest—defined as the proportion of a population ever arrested—and the incidence of arrest—defined as the number of …
Providing Criminal Justice for Children
A Political Economy of Deviance
Child Abuse and Neglect
The Savings and Loan Debacle, Financial Crime, and the State
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s was one of the worst financial disasters of the twentieth century. We argue here that much financial fraud of the sort that contributed to this debacle constitutes 'collective embezzlement,' and that this collective embezzlement may be the prototypical corporate crime of the late twentieth century. We further argue that the state may have a different relationship to this kind of financial fraud than to man…
The Size of the “Criminal Population”
The recent emphasis in criminological theory and research on “chronic offenders” assumes that involvement in crime is concentrated among a small group of offenders rather than being widespread in the population. To address this question, this study employs a longitudinal data base on criminal histories to estimate the prevalence of arrest—defined as the proportion of a population ever arrested—and the incidence of arrest—defined as the number of …
Field of Schemes
This article uses case studies to investigate the theft of employee health benefits, a crime most prevalent in the small firm segment of the health insurance market. We argue that this phenomenon reveals new, emerging economic contexts for white-collar crime that need to be conceptualized. Conventional theories of white-collar crime typically focus on corporate settings in well-institutionalized markets. However, the wave of health insurance frau…
Is Justice “Collar‐blind”
The question of punishment of white‐collar criminals is addressed in this paper through an examination of sanctions imposed on health care providers convicted of defrauding California's Medicaid “Medi‐Cal” system. Quantitative data were collected from Medi‐Cal case files and, for comparative purposes, from a statewide data base maintained by the California Bureau of Criminal Statistics for grand theft arrestees. Qualitative data comprising interv…
Paying for Alternative Medicine
In the early 1990s, Americans spent an estimated $27 billion on alternative medical treatments. However, most of those expenditures were paid out of pocket rather than by health insurers. This article reviews empirical studies of third-party coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the factors behind the reluctance of health insurers to provide benefits for those treatments. This reluctance is based on three principal factors:…
Providing Criminal Justice for Children
A Political Economy of Deviance
Child Abuse and Neglect
The Size of the “Criminal Population”
The recent emphasis in criminological theory and research on “chronic offenders” assumes that involvement in crime is concentrated among a small group of offenders rather than being widespread in the population. To address this question, this study employs a longitudinal data base on criminal histories to estimate the prevalence of arrest—defined as the proportion of a population ever arrested—and the incidence of arrest—defined as the number of …
Is Justice “Collar‐blind”
The question of punishment of white‐collar criminals is addressed in this paper through an examination of sanctions imposed on health care providers convicted of defrauding California's Medicaid “Medi‐Cal” system. Quantitative data were collected from Medi‐Cal case files and, for comparative purposes, from a statewide data base maintained by the California Bureau of Criminal Statistics for grand theft arrestees. Qualitative data comprising interv…
Profit Without Honor
1. Introduction. 2. Crimes Against Consumers. 3. Unsafe Products. 4. Environmental Crime. 5. Institutional Corruption: Mass Media and Religion. 6. Securities Fraud. 7. Fiduciary Fraud: Crime in the Banking, Insurance, and Pension Fund Industries. 8. Crimes by the Government. 9. Corruption of Public Officials. 10. Medical Crime. 11. Computer Crime. 12. Conclusions
Big Money Crime
At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions ab…
The Savings and Loan Debacle, Financial Crime, and the State
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s was one of the worst financial disasters of the twentieth century. We argue here that much financial fraud of the sort that contributed to this debacle constitutes 'collective embezzlement,' and that this collective embezzlement may be the prototypical corporate crime of the late twentieth century. We further argue that the state may have a different relationship to this kind of financial fraud than to man…
Big Money Crime
At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions ab…
Field of Schemes
This article uses case studies to investigate the theft of employee health benefits, a crime most prevalent in the small firm segment of the health insurance market. We argue that this phenomenon reveals new, emerging economic contexts for white-collar crime that need to be conceptualized. Conventional theories of white-collar crime typically focus on corporate settings in well-institutionalized markets. However, the wave of health insurance frau…
Broken Promises
Paying for Alternative Medicine
In the early 1990s, Americans spent an estimated $27 billion on alternative medical treatments. However, most of those expenditures were paid out of pocket rather than by health insurers. This article reviews empirical studies of third-party coverage of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the factors behind the reluctance of health insurers to provide benefits for those treatments. This reluctance is based on three principal factors:…
Abandoned Consumers
This paper presents a case study of frauds committed by offshore companies in the California auto insurance market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The opportunities for these crimes were created by two factors: the departure of legitimate insurance companies from the market and the adoption of deregulatory policies by state regulators. The case study illustrates some of the consequences of the increasingly common situation in the US in which c…
Global Pirates
In 1990, a congressional subcommittee warned of knaves and buccaneers in the insurance industry-unlicensed and largely unregulated companies that operate out of countries like Antigua and the Cayman Islands and sell hundreds of millions of dollars in worthless insurance policies to unsuspecting Americans every year. Increasingly, when a fire, car accident, or medical emergency strikes, policyholders suddenly find themselves victims of a global co…
Policing the Markets
The Price Is Not Right
This chapter presents the argument that financialization, as a broad economic trend, has increased the opportunities for financial crime among firms both within and outside the financial services industry. The growth of the financial services industry, increasing dependence of many economies on financial services, increasing focus on share value by firms, and dramatic increases in compensation within the financial services industry have all contr…
In-your-face Watergate
Business (13 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (9 obras) · Criminology (8 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Finance (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras)