Suite Revenge
The Shaping of Folk Devils and Moral Panics about White-Collar Crimes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Levi (0000-0003-2131-2882, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-67 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azn073 |
| OpenAlex | W2143971439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 18 |
The utility of ‘ concern, hostility, consensus, disproportionality and volatility ’ to understanding social reaction to different white-collar crimes is elaborated and reviewed. It is hard to generate and to sustain a moral panic about any white-collar crimes and criminals, but some populist areas such as ‘ identity fraud ’ and ‘ investment fraud ’ are good candidates, especially where individuals, ethnicities or ‘ organized crime networks ’ exist as folk devils already. Long time scales in fraud discovery, investigation and criminal justice actions, as well as real libel risks, inhibit the devilling and the moral panicking processes. By contrast with street crimes, key state actors manage ‘ the problem of fraud ’ mainly by data-sharing, compensation and regulation, plus some symbolic degradation ceremonies, calming the factors that might stoke ‘ counterproductive ’ reactions that might harm ‘ the economy ’.
Collar · Criminology · Moral panic · Political science · Sociology · Suite · White (mutation) · White-collar crime · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Engineering · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law
Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices
Modern Folk Devils
The Good Cause
News Media, Victims and Crime
Crisis, What Crisis? Regulation and the Academic Orthodoxy
The Loughan House Controversy
Making sense of professional enablers’ involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation
‘It could have been us’. Peer responses to money-laundering violations in the Dutch banking industry
Corporate delinquency and corporate sanctions
Perceptions of Blameworthiness and Punitiveness Towards Government Officials and Business Executives in State-Corporate Crime Cases
A Hybrid Model of Moral Panics
For a political economy of moral panics
A contemporary study of the decision to incarcerate white‐collar and street property offenders
Framing the picture
Beyond the Seductions of the State
Paniques morales
Retour sur deux paniques morales canoniques aux États-Unis dans les années 1930
Examining the Influence of Increased Knowledge About White-Collar Crime on Attitudes Toward It in the Undergraduate Classroom
Societal Reactions to Deviance
Frauds and Their Controls
From Ghosh Subjectivism to Ivey Objectivism
Volatile Boundaries
Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity
Crime and Economic Downturn
The 1983 Strike-Hard Campaign in China
A Vile and Violent Thing’
Commentary
Faits et conspirations
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Desired Panic
Moral regulation and a good moral panic
Violent Street Crime Versus Harmful White-Collar Crime
Cognitive Dissonance Resolution Strategies After Exposure to Corporate Violence Scenarios
Policing the Crisis
The Ideal Victim
Crime Control as Industry
Moral Panics
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Moral Panics
Fear of Violence and Fear of Fraud
New York
Alter Reality
Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime
The Media Construction of Financial White-Collar Crimes
Public and Police Perceptions of Crime Seriousness in England and Wales
Failure To Launch
Organized Evil and the Atlantic Alliance
On the concept of moral panic
The Moral Economy of Everyday Crime
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |