Crime by committee: Conspirators and company men in the illegal electrical industry cartel, 1954-1959

Criminology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 511-554

  Faulkner, Robert R ^a   Cheney, Eric R ^a   Fisher, Gene A ^a   Baker, Wayne E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Fraud; Investments; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142301907     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2003.tb00996.x     Document Type: Review

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