Choosing White-Collar Crime (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/14/2005
EAN 9780521662178, ISBN10: 0521662176
Hardcover, 232 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs. Although it has been applied to an array of street crimes, white-collar crime and those who commit it have thus far received less attention. Choosing White-Collar Crime is a systematic application of rational-choice theory to problems of explaining and controlling white-collar crime. It distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime and presents reasons theoretically for believing that both have increased substantially in recent decades. Reasons for the increase include the growing supply of white-collar lure and non-credible oversight. Choosing White-Collar Crime also examines criminal decision making by white-collar criminals and their criminal careers. The book concludes with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked in the increasingly global economy and calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the increases.
1. Choosing white collar crime
2. Lure
3. The predisposed and tempted
4. Self-restraint and oversight
5. Decision making
6. Criminal careers and career criminals
7. Beyond the law?
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