Consumer Fraud: A Reference Handbook by Lee E. Norrgard and Julia M. Norrgard (1998, Hardcover)

Key Details
Author:	Lee E. Norrgard, Julia M. Norrgard
Language:	English
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Inc.
Series:	Contemporary World Issues
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0874369916
ISBN-13:	9780874369915

Size
Length:	338 pages
Height:	9.5 in
Width:	6.3 in
Thickness:	1.2 in
Weight:	24 oz

Publisher's Note
Consumers lose countless billions of dollars annually to telemarketing fraud, misleading advertising, and bogus investment schemes. This volume reveals the full spectrum of consumer fraud - from adulteration to work-at-home scams - and explains what consumer fraud is, how it affects society, and what is being done to combat it. Readers will find an informative introduction, a chronology of significant milestones related to consumer fraud, and biographical sketches of key figures. Source documents and statistics, a directory of consumer organizations and agencies, listings of print and nonprint resources (including Internet sites), a glossary, and a comprehensive index round out the volume.

This first-stop reference suitable for high school students and above provides an introductory essay describing the various types of consumer fraud; a chronology of relevant milestones; biographical sketches of 10 key figures (among them Charles Keating Jr., Ralph Nader, and Upton Sinclair); briefly introduced excerpts from source documents; a directory of consumer organizations and agencies, arranged by state; annotated listings of print and nonprint resources; and a glossary. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.