Understanding white-collar crime an opportunity perspective - Benson, Michael L. 1950- (Routledge, 2015)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Unlike other books of its kind, Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective uses a coherent theoretical perspective in its coverage of white-collar crime. Using opportunity perspective, or the assumption that all crimes depend on offenders having some sort of opportunity to commit an offense, allows the authors to uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue, without being reductive in their treatment of the topic. With this second edition, Benson and Simpson have greatly expanded their coverage to include new case
pt. 1. An introduction and overview of white-collar crime -- pt. 2. Criminlogical theory and the opportunity perspective -- pt. 3. Applying the opportunity perspective to white-collar crime -- pt. 4. The symbolic construction and social distribution of opportunities -- pt. 5. Control, prevention, and the future of white-collar crime