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Crime and the Average American

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Weisburd David, Wheeler Stanton, Waring Elin, & Bode Nancy, Crimes of the Middle Classes: White-Collar Offenders in the Federal Courts. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. xvii + 211 pages. $24.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

John Braithwaite
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Law & Society Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 215 - 231
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Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association

Footnotes

My thanks to Kathleen Daly for suggesting some of the leads followed in this paper, particularly the work of Zeitz. Thanks also to Joseph Sanders for many helpful suggestions.

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