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Detection of White-Collar Criminals

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Crime signal detection theory suggests that signal intensity, signal alertness, pattern recognition, and personal experience are critical for successful detection of misconduct and crime.

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Gottschalk, P. (2018). Detection of White-Collar Criminals. In: Investigating White-Collar Crime. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68916-6_3

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