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Seventy years after Edwin Sutherland introduced the term “white collar crime” in his Presidential Address to the American Sociological Association, criminologists and sociologists have failed to develop a comprehensive understanding of crime, criminal behavior, and criminal justice. This failure can be traced to disciplinary and epistemological shifts in sociology and criminology that occurred post-1970. The chapters in this volume bring white-collar crime back into the mainstream of criminological inquiry by using recent criminological insights in theory and methods to advance the study of white collar crime.
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Simpson, S.S., Weisburd, D. (2009). Introduction. In: Simpson, S.S., Weisburd, D. (eds) The Criminology of White-Collar Crime. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09502-8_1
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