TY - BOOK ID - 7486123 TI - White-collar crime and criminal careers AU - Weisburd, David AU - Waring, Elin J. PY - 2001 SN - 0521777631 0521771625 051117361X 0511040792 0511325045 0511499523 128042947X 0511152744 0511049579 9780511040795 9780521771627 9780511049576 9780511499524 9780521777636 1107119383 9786610429479 6610429472 0521771631 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Commercial criminals. KW - White collar crimes. KW - Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - Occupational crimes KW - Criminals KW - Crime KW - White collar crimes KW - Commercial criminals KW - E-books KW - Carrieres criminelles KW - Efficacite des sanctions penales KW - Typologies KW - White-collar crime UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7486123 AB - Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar offenders. David Weisburd and Elin Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the criminal careers of people convicted of white-collar crimes. Weisburd and Waring uncover some surprising findings, which upset common wisdom about white-collar criminals. Many scholars have assumed that white-collar criminals are unlikely to have multiple or long records or repeat offenses. As the authors demonstrate, a significant number of white-collar criminals have numerous brushes with the law and their careers show marked similarities to the circumstances and life patterns of street criminals. Their findings illustrate the misplaced emphasis of previous scholarship in focusing on the categorical distinctions between criminals and non-criminals. Rather, their data suggest the importance of the immediate context of crime and its role in leading otherwise conventional people to violate the law. ER -