Choosing white-collar crime

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Title:

Author:

Shover, Neal.

ISBN:

9780521662178

9780521665544

9780521662949

Personal Author:

Shover, Neal.

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xviii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in criminology

Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)

Series Title:

Cambridge studies in criminology

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

White-collar crime -- Lure -- The predisposed and tempted -- Self-restraint and oversight -- Decision making -- Criminal careers and career criminals -- Beyond the law?

Subject Term:

White collar crimes.

Commercial criminals.

Criminal behavior -- Decision making.

Rational choice theory.

Added Author:

Hochstetler, Andrew.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005017961-d.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005017961.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2005017961-b.html

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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.

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