Based on Joachim J. Savelsberg and Peter Brühl, Politik und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht: Rationalitäten, Kommunikationen und Macht (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1988), revised, translated, and with a new chapter on the United States.

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Preface
PART I- WHY STUDY WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LEGISLATION?
Chapter 1- Questions, Introduction to the Case, and Overview
PART II- THEORY AND METHODS IN THE STUDY OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME LEGISLATION
Chapter 2- Rationalities, Communication, and Power: Theoretical Perspectives and Methods
PART III- THE CASE STUDY: FROM CLAIMS MAKING TO LEGISLATION
Chapter 3- The Social Problem of Economic Crime, Claims Making, and Motivating the Political Process
Chapter 4- The Expert Commission: Developing the Claims and First Resistance
Chapter 5- The Production of the Second Law Against Economic Crime: The Political Sector
Chapter 6- Context Structures, Situations, and Argument Structures: The Total Set of Cognitive Maps
PART IV- CONCLUSIONS FROM THE CASE STUDY AND AN AMERICAN-GERMAN COMPARISON
Chapter 7- Rationalities, Communication, and Power: Conclusions
Chapter 8- The American and German Cases: Commonalities and Differences
References
Index

Joachim J. Saveslberg. With contributions by Peter Brühl