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White-collar crime and criminal careers / David Weisburd, Elin Waring with Ellen F. Chayet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisburd, David, author.
- Waring, Elin J., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in criminology.
- Cambridge studies in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White collar crimes.
- Commercial criminals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 189 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- White-Collar Crime & Criminal Careers
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar offenders. David Weisburd and Elin Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the criminal careers of people convicted of white-collar crimes. Weisburd and Waring uncover some surprising findings, which upset common wisdom about white-collar criminals. Many scholars have assumed that white-collar criminals are unlikely to have multiple or long records or repeat offenses. As the authors demonstrate, a significant number of white-collar criminals have numerous brushes with the law and their careers show marked similarities to the circumstances and life patterns of street criminals. Their findings illustrate the misplaced emphasis of previous scholarship in focusing on the categorical distinctions between criminals and non-criminals. Rather, their data suggest the importance of the immediate context of crime and its role in leading otherwise conventional people to violate the law.
- Contents:
- White-collar crime and criminal careers
- Dimensions of official criminal careers
- Crimes of crisis and opportunity
- Chronic offenders
- Prison sanctions and criminal careers
- Understanding recidivism
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Detailed information about the sample
- Appendix B: The imprisonment model.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11938-3
- 1-280-42947-X
- 0-511-17361-X
- 0-511-04079-2
- 0-511-15274-4
- 0-511-32504-5
- 0-511-49952-3
- 0-511-04957-9
- OCLC:
- 70752686
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