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When does cutting corners in pursuit of corporate profit become a crime? When should the misdeeds of government officials warrant a prison sentence? This lucid introduction to the notoriously complex problem of white-collar crime provides students with a set of tools for exploring the abuse of corporate and government power. This student-friendly text: Covers the gamut of corporate crimes and government malfeasance; accssibly introduces theoretical concepts; iludes both classic case studies and contemporary examples; documents the devastating impact of white-collar crime; and discusses the dilemmas of regulatory reform and ways to prevent white-collar crime. For students, the result is a critical approach to separating right from wrong and lawful from illegal in the gray areas of professional and civic life.

In this article the author shares his experience doing life history research with people with disabilities. Berger begins with a brief explanation of how his biographical trajectory brought him to an interest in disability. He then considers the tradition of emancipatory disability research in the context of qualitative inquiry more generally, then his research with Melvin Juette and the world of wheelchair basketball, and last his work with Jon Feucht and the world of augmentative communication.

In this essay, the author recounts his experience with a student complaint that reached an influential Republican legislator and raises questions about academic freedom in an era of right-wing political activism. The context of the complaint was a course on white-collar crime in which the author raised issues about the nature of economic and political power that the student found objectionable. Although the complaint was dismissed, its aim was to create a chilling atmosphere in which faculty will self-censor and become fearful about advancing a progressive politics of pedagogical and scholarly advocacy.

In this essay I recount my engagement with my father's experience of the Holocaust and its impact on my professional career and way of thinking about the world. The voices of survivors like my father are no longer silenced and marginalized as they once were, but the legacy of the trauma they endured remains in dispute. As such, I consider questions of Jewish identity and continuity in the postwar era as well as controversies about Israel's role in the Middle East, especially as the latter is a source of contention within the political left. I conclude with some observations about particularistic and universalistic identities that mark the path toward expanded human liberation.