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Causes of White Collar Crime

NCJ Number
108938
Journal
Criminology Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Dated: (November 1987) Pages: 949-974
Author(s)
T Hirschi; M Gottredson
Date Published
1987
Length
25 pages
Annotation
This paper begins with a conceptual analysis of the idea of white-collar crime.
Abstract
It considers data relevant to popular images of white-collar crime and outlines a general theory of crime explicitly applicable to both ordinary and white-collar crime. This theory is compared with traditional explanations of white-collar crime, and several explicit empirical tests of rival views are described. (Publisher abstract)