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Literature on lawyers mostly reflects notions of standards of behaviour—expected and absent—and is seen as an issues of ‘legal ethics’. These views are particularly prominent in American literature where lawyers are trying, but fail to act ‘properly’ or as Simon (Ethical discretion in lawyering. Harvard Law Rev 101(6): 1083–1145, (1988: 204–205) put it, are ‘ethically ambitious’. This chapter then considers lawyers as a conduit of corruption helping offenders commit crimes and/or acting alone. This is followed by a discussion on tactics employed by lawyers in a court of law to defend a client(s). Finally this is all placed into a theorectical framework on why lawyers might commit white collar crime.

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Brooks, G. (2019). Lawyers and Criminal Justice. In: Criminal Justice and Corruption. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16038-8_10

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