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The Global Economy, Economic Crisis, and White-Collar Crime Contents Volume 9 • Issue 3 • August 2010 SPECIAL ISSUE The Global Economy, Economic Crisis, and White-Collar Crime EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION White-collar crime and the Great Recession .......................................................................429 Neal Shover, Peter Grabosky WALLS OF SECRECY AND SILENCE RESEARCH ARTICLE. Walls of secrecy and silence: The Madoff case ..........................................435 and cartels in the construction industry Henk van de Bunt POLICY ESSAY. Secrecy, silence, and corporate crime reforms ..................................................455 William S. Laufer POLICY ESSAY. Silent or invisible? Governments and corporate financial crimes .....................467 John Minkes POLICY ESSAY. How to effectively get crooks like Bernie Madoff in Dutch .............................475 Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis POLICY ESSAY. Getting our attention .......................................................................................483 Nancy Reichman SERIOUS TAX FRAUD AND NONCOMPLIANCE RESEARCH ARTICLE. Serious tax fraud and noncompliance: A review of evidence ....................493 on the differential impact of criminal and noncriminal proceedings Michael Levi POLICY ESSAY. Criminal prosecution within responsive regulatory practice ............................515 Valerie Braithwaite POLICY ESSAY. Fairness matters—more than deterrence: .........................................................525 Class bias and the limits of deterrence Paul Leighton POLICY ESSAY. Serious tax noncompliance: Motivation and guardianship ..............................535 Benno Torgler Volume 9 • Issue 3 I TRANSNATIONAL WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND RISK RESEARCH ARTICLE. Transnational white-collar crime and risk: Lessons ...................................543 from the global trade in electronic waste Carole Gibbs, Edmund F. McGarrell, Mark Axelrod POLICY ESSAY. Global E-waste trade: The need for formal regulation .....................................561 and accountability beyond the organization Dawn L. Rothe POLICY ESSAY. Framing E-waste regulation: The obfuscating role of power ............................569 Laureen Snider POLICY ESSAY. Smart regulation and enforcement of illegal disposal of electronic waste .........579 Judith van Erp, Wim Huisman MORTGAGE ORIGINATION FRAUD RESEARCH ARTICLE. Mortgage origination fraud and the global economic crisis: .....................591 A criminological analysis Tomson H. Nguyen, Henry N. Pontell POLICY ESSAY. Echo epidemics: Control frauds generate “white-collar street crime” waves .....613 William K. Black POLICY ESSAY. Diagnostics of white-collar crime prevention ...................................................621 John Braithwaite POLICY ESSAY. Mortgage origination fraud and the global economic crisis: ............................627 Incremental versus transformative policy initiatives David O. Friedrichs POLICY ESSAY. Mortgage origination fraud: The missing links ................................................633 M. Cary Collins, Peter J. Nigro EDITORIAL CONCLUSION Forestalling the next epidemic of white-collar crime: Linking policy to theory ..................641 Peter Grabosky, Neal Shover II Criminology & Public Policy Guide to Preparing Manuscripts Editorial Policy—Criminology & Public Policy (CPP) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of criminal justice policy and practice. The central objective of the journal is to strengthen the role of research findings in the formulation of crime and justice policy by publishing empirically based, policy-focused articles. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that contribute to a more informed dialogue about policies and their empirical bases. 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