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A Normative Approach to White-Collar Crime

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The study of white-collar crime has been primarily the province of two fairly distinct academic disciplines. In the 1940s, sociologists and criminologists began to focus on the causes and effects of white-collar crime and the social status and circumstances of the offenders who commit such offenses1. A generation or so later, academic lawyers began directing their attention to the complexities of white-collar crime doctrine, the policies and procedures that underlie such offenses, and the sentencing of white-collar offenders2.

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Green, S.P. (2007). A Normative Approach to White-Collar Crime. In: Pontell, H.N., Geis, G. (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8_11

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