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I. White-Collar Crime I. White-Collar Crime
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II. Variation in White-Collar Crime across Contexts II. Variation in White-Collar Crime across Contexts
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A. Lure A. Lure
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B. The Tempted and Predisposed B. The Tempted and Predisposed
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C. Oversight and Criminal Opportunities C. Oversight and Criminal Opportunities
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D. Context and the Ranks of Tempted and Predisposed D. Context and the Ranks of Tempted and Predisposed
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III. Variation in White-Collar Crime across Organizations III. Variation in White-Collar Crime across Organizations
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IV. Variation in White-Collar Crime across Individuals IV. Variation in White-Collar Crime across Individuals
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A. Motivation and Incentives A. Motivation and Incentives
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B. Personal Qualities B. Personal Qualities
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C. Social Influence C. Social Influence
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V. Conclusion V. Conclusion
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References References
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25 Choosing White-Collar Crime
Get accessNeal Shover is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Tennessee.
Andy Hochstetler, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University.
Tage Alalehto is Lecturer in Sociology at Umea University (Sweden).
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Published:28 December 2012
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Abstract
In Western countries such as the United States, crime is viewed as chosen behavior. This assumption emerged as the dominant theoretical underpinning of crime control policy-making in the decades encompassing the dawn of the twenty-first century. Routine activity theory is a good example of how contemporary criminological scholars have been drawn to choice models of criminal behavior. The notion of crime as choice also underlies many, if not most, contemporary interpretations of white-collar crime. For instance, theoretical explanations in which the causal importance of variation in criminal opportunities is stressed are based on choice models. Crime-as-choice theory overlaps but is not coextensive with rational choice theory; it differs mainly from the latter by not incorporating an assumption a priori that criminal choices are rational. This article applies the concepts and logic of crime-as-choice theory to explain variation in white-collar crime.
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