White-Collar Crime
Book description
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational conditions that facilitate white-collar crimes. In addition, they offer potential solutions…
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1 author picked White-Collar Crime as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Benson and Simpson use the opportunity perspective – assuming that crimes often depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense – to uncover the processes and situational conditions that induce white-collar crimes.
They offer solutions to this persistent and widespread social problem, recognizing the difficulties of control.
The treatment is thoroughly researched and empirically supported.
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