Assembled in honor of the preeminent criminologist and scholar, Gilbert Geis, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, this volume features original, interesting, cutting-edge essays written by internationally known contributors in such areas as white collar crime, punishment and social control, public policy issues, comparative criminology, law, victimology, and policing.Features writing, for example, by Braithwaite, Vaughn, Short, Farrington, Levi, Pontell, Calavita, Meier, Simpson, Huff, Cullen on a broad array of topics in THEORY AND METHOD IN CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH; WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND CORPORATE CRIME; SOCIAL CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES; And Various FORMS OF CRIME.For scholars, students, and practitioners of criminal justice.

PrefaceThis volume was assembled in honor of the preeminent criminologist and scholar, Gilbert Geis, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. Although this is a significant milestone in his life and certainly a cause for celebration, Gil deserves to be honored for many other reasons as well. First, and perhaps foremost, he is one of the most outstanding teachers and colleagues one could ever imagine. To those who know him, as well as to many who have simply met him, the combination of Gil's great warmth, caring, humor, intellect, breadth of interests, and energy mark him as one of the truly unique persons in the academic world today. As a prolific writer on a variety of topics related to law, crime, and criminal justice, his record of productivity over the past six decades, to use an analogy from his favorite sport, is similar in stature to the benchmarks set by Joe DiMaggio, Nolan Ryan, Hank Aaron, Cal Ripken, and Mark McGwire. That is, it is extremely difficult to imagine anyone ever surpassing his academic publication record. At last count, he has written or edited 21 books, 192 articles, 104 book chapters, and 30 monographs and has edited a number of special issues of journals. The incredible number of Gil's scholarly publications is matched only by the fact that it is first-rate work, written in a rich and engaging manner that appeals to scholars, practitioners, and students alike.Gil's academic career began in 1952 in the sociology department at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Before that, he served as a radioman in the U.S. Navy during the war years (1942-45), and as a reporter for theTimesin Hartford, Connecticut (1946) and theDaily Home Newsin New Brunswick, New Jersey (1947-48). He earned his Ph.D. (1953) in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison after receiving his M.S. (1949) at Brigham Young University and his B.A. (1947) at Colgate University. He also spent a year (1948) at the University of Stockholm in Sweden.Gil left Oklahoma as an assistant professor in 1957, and took a position at California State University, Los Angeles, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1960 and then professor in 1963. During the 1969-70 school year, he was a visiting professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York, Albany. In 1971 he served as a visiting professor in the Program in Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. The program's founder, Arnold Binder, a mathematical psychologist, convinced him to join the faculty the following year. Gil remained at Irvine and became professor emeritus in 1987, with brief stints as a visiting fellow in the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University (1976-77), a visiting professor in the law school at the University of Sydney (1979), a distinguished visiting professor in the College of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University (1981), and a distinguished visiting professor in the John Jay School of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (1996).He has also been the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career as a criminologist. Among them are outstanding professor awards at California State University (1968, 1971), the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award at UC, Irvine (1980), the Paul Tappan Award for outstanding contributions to criminology from the Western Society of Criminology (1980), the Edwin H. Sutherland Award for outstanding contributions to theory and research in criminology from the American Society of Criminology (1985), and the Donald R. Cressey Award for excellence in fraud detection and deterrence from the National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (1992). He has been a principal investigator or director of thirteen grants, including projects funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.Throughout his career,