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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 June 2009
      12 February 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511499524
      9780521771627
      9780521777636
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499524
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.451kg, 208 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.29kg, 208 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Criminology, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Criminology
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    Subjects:
    Criminology, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Criminology
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    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.

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    ‘This book refutes the simplistic notion that poverty causes crime. The idea that criminals are in some way different from the rest of society and only to be found in the most impoverished urban estates may be reassuring but it is certainly false.’

    Source: Irish Jurist

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