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This is a review and synthesis of the literature on white-collar crime. It is an attempt to encourage critical thought about the nature of crime, law, and criminal justice by examining white-collar crime. One of the unique themes of the work is an ongoing comparison between white-collar and conventional crime with the implication that learning about white-collar crime simultaneously teaches us something about conventional crime and criminal justice.

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• Definitional and Conceptual Issues Demystifying the Crimes of the Powerful Accidents, Isolated Episodes, and Rotten Apples
• The Conventional Wisdom about White-Collar Crime From Sutherland to the Justice Department
• The Evolution of a Concept White-Collar Crime and the Double Standard
• The Problem of Explanation What Are the "Facts" of White-Collar Crime? Toward a Theory of White-Collar Crime
• The Social Control of White-Collar Crime Traditional Approaches to the Problem Is White-Collar Crime Enforcement More Symbolic than Real? Is There a Solution?
• References

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Poveda (sociology, SUNY Plattsburgh) has also written Lawlessness and Reform: The FBI in Transition (1990). The basic thesis of the present book, not especially original but arguably deserving of ongoing promotion, is that society resists regarding white-collar crime as "real" crime, despite the fact that its consequences are more substantial than those of conventional crime. At least some of the research literature (mentioned only in passing here) suggests an expanding public perception of the seriousness of white-collar crime. The first part of this book examines some of the conceptual issues pertaining to white-collar crime, some of the alleged myths about it, and some elements of the "double standard" in responding to it. Part 2 identifies some of the key, pertinent facts and some of the principal theoretical explanations. Part 3 discusses the traditional approaches to controlling white-collar crime, the thesis that the legal response to white-collar crime has been more symbolic than real, and some alternative contemporary strategies for doing something about it. Altogether this is a generally well-informed if somewhat concise and selective survey of the white-collar crime literature. Upper-division undergraduate and up. D. O. Friedrichs; University of Scranton

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TONY G. POVEDA is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Poveda is the author of numerous articles and professional papers relating to the FBI, organizational crime, and deviance. He is the author of Lawlessness and Reform: The FBI in Transition .