Unfortunately, the study of white-collar crime does not occupy a central place in the study of crime and criminality (although Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson [1987] argue otherwise) and thus has done little to add to the policy discussion regarding what can and should be done to control crime and criminal behavior. Despite Edwin Sutherland’s early attempts to debunk the myopic view of crime and criminality as being only a street-level phenomenon engaged in by those of the less privileged classes, the study of white-collar crime still does not command the research attention of the vast majority of scholars workin
