THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHITE‐COLLAR CRIME FOR A GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME
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Abstract
Advocates of the concept of white‐collar crime have failed to make the case for its scientific value. Steffensmeier's efforts to save the concept further support our view that it is flawed and misleading. His efforts support our contention that the correlates of white‐collar crime are the same as the correlates of crime, that the age distribution of offending is the same for white‐collar crimes as for other crimes, that official statistics have sufficient validity for many etiological purposes, and that the search for a general theory of crime holds great promise for criminology.