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The Practices of White-Collar Crime are Distinct From Other Forms of Criminality. Discuss. Two areas of crime which, to date, have had little media coverage and which are not topics that most people think of when they consider what is crime, are white-collar and corporate crime. Today both have a well-established place in criminology text books, but until the late 1980s the former was not something generally recognised or rapidly perceived by the general public to be criminal in the United Kingdom (Williams 2004:55). But this assignment will only be talking and concentrating on the practices of white collar crime. White-collar crime is generally associated with wealth and powerful offenders, and a series of recent high profile cases such as the collapse of Baring's bank and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), along with the Maxwell pension's fraud, have prompted suggestions that it, too, is rising. These major cases...

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