White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521771627
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Social Science; Criminal Law - General; Sociology; Criminology; General; Law : Criminal Law - General; Social Science / Criminology; True Crime : General; Commercial criminals; White collar crimes
First sentence: When Edwin Sutherland coined the term "white-collar crime" in his address to the American Sociological Society in 1939, he used the concept to challenge conventional stereotypes and theories.