Clearly exposes the battle between personal gain and individual integrity and provides a comprehensive overview of white-collar crime in American society....

Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing-the mere mention of these companies brings forth images of scandal, fraud, and large-scale corruption. But do these dark stars of media stories represent a few \"bad apples\" or does their misconduct provide evidence of a regulatory black hole in the so-called New Economy?...

In 1990, a congressional subcommittee warned of \"financial 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....

At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was one of the worst financial crises of the twentieth century as well as a series of crimes unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were received minimal sentences....