Choosing White-Collar Crime Hardback

For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs.

Although it has been applied to an array of street crimes, white-collar crime and those who commit it have thus far received less attention.

Choosing White-Collar Crime is a systematic application of rational-choice theory to problems of explaining and controlling white-collar crime.

It distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime and presents reasons theoretically for believing that both have increased substantially in recent decades.

Reasons for the increase include the growing supply of white-collar lure and non-credible oversight.

Choosing White-Collar Crime also examines criminal decision making by white-collar criminals and their criminal careers.

The book concludes with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked in the increasingly global economy and calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the increases.