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CAUSES OF WHITE‐COLLAR CRIME *
Author(s) -
HIRSCHI TRAVIS,
GOTTFREDSON MICHAEL
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1987.tb00827.x
Subject(s) - collar , white collar crime , white (mutation) , criminology , psychology , sociology , social psychology , engineering , structural engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This paper begins with a conceptual analysis of the idea of white‐collar crime. It considers data relevant to popular images of white‐collar crime and outlines a general theory of crime explicitly applicable to both ordinary and white‐collar crime. This theory is compared with traditional explanations of white‐collar crime, and several explicit empirical tests of rival views are described.