White-collar crime traditionally has not been an issue that has interested biologists or psychologists: it has served as a sociological battering ram with which to falsify Ôconventional wisdomsÕ such as the link between ÔcrimeÕ and poverty, low social class, youth, impulsivity, bad genes, etcetera. The search for individual differences between ÔcriminalsÕ and Ôthe rest of usÕ that characterized 19th and early 20th century criminology was never applied to white-collar criminals because people of

First Author: Cullen, Francis T.; Wilcox, Pamela K.
Attributed to:  THE PATTERNS, ORGANISATION AND GOVERNANCE OF ECONOMIC CRIMES: ENHANCING THE EVIDENCE BASE funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory (2010)

Page Reference: 469-473

ISBN: 9781412959186