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Research conducted within the discipline of criminology has been relatively blind to corporate and white-collar crime, a myopia that has remained even in the face of overwhelming evidence that in both Britain and in the United States of America the social and economic impact of corporate and white-collar crimes upon their victims massively exceeds the corresponding impact of conventional crimes.1 This last fact is acknowledged inmuch contemporary criminology, though such acknowledgment tends to appear somewhat gesturally, as if mere recognition of the existence of corporate and white-collar crimes is enough to bolster the integrity of criminological research. The truth of the matter is that, despite such token recognition of the crimes of the powerful, criminological research rarely takes these types of offenses and offenders as an object of study.
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Tombs, S., Whyte, D. (2007). Researching Corporate and White-Collar Crimeinan Eraof Neo-Liberalism. In: Pontell, H.N., Geis, G. (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8_6
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