WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the
oach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for
programs. Although it has been applied to an array of street
ollar crime and those who commit it have thus far received
Choosing White-Collar Crime is a systematic application of
theory to problems of explaining and controlling white-
distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime
easons for believing that both have increased substantially
des. Reasons for the increase include the growing supply
lure and noncredible oversight. Choosing White-Collar Crime
he generative world of white-collar criminals, their decision
eir criminal careers. The book concludes with reasons for
problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked in
y global economy and calls for strengthened citizen move-
n the increases.
Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee,
re he teaches courses in criminology, white-collar crime,
ustice. He is author of A Sociology of American Corrections
Criminals (1985), Enforcement or Negotiation? Constructing a
aucracy (with Donald A. Clelland and John P. Lynxwiler,
g American Corrections (with Werner Einstadter, 1989), Great
uits and Careers of Persistent Thieves (1996), and co-editor
Wright) of Crimes of Privilege (2000). His work has appeared
Social Problems; the British Journal of Criminology; Criminology;
Social Change, and numerous edited collections.
ler is Associate Professor of Sociology at Iowa State Univer-
eaches courses on crime at the graduate and undergrad-
well as a course on inequality and stratification. He writes
crime, prisoners, criminal decision making, and recidi-
has appeared in numerous edited collections and journals
inology; Social Problems; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography;
quency; Justice Quarterly; Journal of Criminal Justice ; Deviant
rime, Law and Social Change.
Cambridge
the series:
Family, Friends, and Violence, by Scott H. Decker and Barrik
Crime: Current Theories, edited by J. David Hawkins
Delinquency: Violent J