Crimes of Privilege
Subtitle: Readings in White-Collar Crime (Readings in Crime and Punishment)
Contributors: Neal Shover (Editor); John Paul Wright (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780195136203
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Social classes; Social Science; Sociology; General; Social Science / Criminology; Criminology; White collar crimes
First sentence: In his 1939 presidential address to the American Sociological Association, Edwin Sutherland introduced and defined white-collar crime, called for more attention to it, and criticized academic social scientists for the class bias in their near-exclusive focus on crimes of the disadvantaged.