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White-Collar Crime DAVID NELKEN INTRODUCTION The media increasingly report cases of business or professional people caught out in serious offences, sometimes for behaviour which they did not expect to be treated as criminal, and for which it is often difficult to secure a conviction. Such Jekyll and Hyde contradiction between respectability and crime raises questions which are unlike those posed by other types of criminal behaviour. Why do they do it when they have so much to lose? How representative are they or their practices of other businessmen or business life in general? Is there one law for the rich and another for the poor? One of the biggest difficulties in approaching this subject is to find a way of putting dramatic and newsworthy cases of business misbehaviour in some sort of context and proportion. Study of the distribution and frequency of white-collar crimes is made problematic by the fact (not in itself...

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