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Just defining white collar crime can be slippery. Its clever, manifold activities drift into areas that border on political corruption or organized crime or, sometimes, even take on characteristics of street crime, such as when embezzlers feel themselves forced to kill to conceal their thievery. But it is one of the elegant hallmarks of white collar crime that its practitioners eschew dirtying their hands or engaging in much direct personal contact.
Some rob you with a six gun, and some with a fountain pen.
Woody Guthrie
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Bouza, T. (1996). White Collar Crime. In: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6034-4_2
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