Choosing White-Collar Crime |
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| Author:
| Shover, Neal
Hochstetler, Andrew |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Criminology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-66554-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2005 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $42.99 |
Book Description:
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Choosing White-Collar Crime is a systematic application of rational-choice theory to 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. Choosing White-Collar Crime also examines criminal decision making by white-collar criminals and their criminal careers. It argues that measures and approaches used in the war on street crime have greater promise for...
More DescriptionChoosing White-Collar Crime is a systematic application of rational-choice theory to 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. Choosing White-Collar Crime also examines criminal decision making by white-collar criminals and their criminal careers. It argues that measures and approaches used in the war on street crime have greater promise for reducing white-collar crime. The book concludes with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked increasingly in the global economy and calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the increases.