White-collar crime: Holding a mirror to the core

Despite advances in scholarship and raised consciousness about upperworld lawlessness, the specialty of white-collar crime remains entrenched on the discipline's periphery. One consequence is that many students receive a criminal justice education which distorts the social reality of crime. We argue that knowledge about white-collar crime can be used to “hold a mirror” to the traditional core of criminology, which in turn allows students to reconsider limited assumptions about crime. Thus we believe that the standard criminal justice curriculum should educate students—indeed, should include a course—on white-collar crime. For those wishing to develop the expertise to teach white-collar crime, we offer a list of scholarly works that will provide “cultural literacy” in this area.

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We would like to thank the reviewers for their comments and for the revisions that these insights allowed.

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We would like to thank the reviewers for their comments and for the revisions that these insights allowed.