Public Corruption in the United States

Public corruption Background

Resources

See Also

• Political Crime
• Political Corruption
• Environmental Crime
• Organized Crime
• Violent Crime
• Police Corruption
• State Crime
• Victimless Crime
• Transnational crime

Further Reading

• Chambliss, W. J. (1978). On the take: From petty crooks to presidents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Douglas, J. D., & Johnson, J. M. (1977). Official deviance: Readings in malfeasance, misfeasance, and other forms of corruption. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
• Ermann, M. D., & Lundman, R. J. (1978). Deviant acts by complex organizations: Deviance and social control at the organizational level of analysis. The Sociological Quarterly, 19, 55–67.
• Heidenheimer, A. J., & Johnston, M. (Eds.). (2002). Political corruption: Concepts and contexts (3d ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Johnston, M. (2005). Syndromes of corruption: Wealth, power, and democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Rose-Ackerman, S. (1999). Corruption and government: Causes, consequences, and reform. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Rosoff, S. M., Pontell, H. N., & Tillman, R. (2014). Profit without honor: White collar crime and the looting of America (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Tunnell, K. D. (Ed.). (1993). Political crime in contemporary America: A critical approach. New York: Garland.
• Beare, M. E. (1997). Corruption and organized crime: Lessons from history. Crime, Law and Social Change, 28(2), 155–172.
• Chambliss, W. J. (1978). On the take: From petty crooks to presidents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Cialdini, R. B. (2001). Influence: Science and practice (4th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
• Clawson, D., Neustadtl, A., & Weller, M. (1998). Dollars and votes: How business campaign contributions subvert democracy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Douglas, J. D., & Johnson, J. M. (1977). Official deviance: Readings in malfeasance, misfeasance, and other forms of corruption. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.
• Ermann, M. D., & Lundman, R. J. (1978). Deviant acts by complex organizations: Deviance and social control at the organizational level of analysis. The Sociological Quarterly, 19, 55–67.
• Friedrichs, D. O. (2010). Trusted criminals: White collar crime in contemporary society (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
• Gilens, M., & Page, B. I. (2014). Testing theories of american politics: Elites, interest groups, and average citizens. Perspectives on Politics, 12, 564–581.
• Goldstein, H. (1974). Police corruption: A perspective on its nature and control. Washington, DC: Police Foundation.
• Heidenheimer, A. J., & Johnston, M. (Eds.). (2002). Political corruption: Concepts and contexts (3d ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Huisman, W., & Vande Walle, G. (2010). The criminology of corruption. In G. de Graaf, P. von Maravic, & P. Waagenar (Eds.), The good cause. Theoretical perspectives on corruption (pp. 115–145). London: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
• Kaiser, R. G. (2009). So damn much money: The triumph of lobbying and the corrosion of American government. New York: Knopf.
• Kaufmann, D., & Vicente, P. C. (2011). Legal corruption. Economics & Politics, 23(2), 195–219.
• Lessig, L. (2011). Republic, lost: how money corrupts congress—and a plan to stop it. New York: Twelve.
• Lukes, S. (1974). Power: A radical view. London: Macmillan.
• MacMullen, R. (1988). Corruption and the decline of Rome. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Merton, Robert K. (1938). Social structure and anomie. American Sociological Review, 3(5), 672–682.
• Nelken, D., & Levi, M. (1996). The corruption of politics and the politics of corruption: An overview. Journal of Law and Society, 23(1), 1–17.
• Passas, N. (1998). Structural analysis of corruption: The role of criminogenic asymmetries. Transnational Organized Crime, 4(1), 42–55.
• Philp, M. (1997). Defining political corruption. Political Studies, 45, 436–462.
• Peoples, C. D. (2012). Quasi-legal markets in D.C.: Contributions, corruption, and their effects on the global financial crisis. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Denver.
• Rose-Ackerman, S. (1999). Corruption and government: Causes, consequences, and reform. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Sherman, L. W. (1974). Police corruption: A sociological perspective. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.
• Zimring, F. E., & Johnson, D. T. (2005). On the comparative study of corruption. British Journal of Criminology, 45(6), 793–809.