White-Collar Crime

• In Event: A Criminologist's Life: Essays in Honor of the Criminological Legacy of Francis T. Cullen

Abstract

Even though it has not been at the center of his intellectual career, Francis T. Cullen is nevertheless one his generation’s leading scholars of white-collar crime. He has made original and substantial contributions to the study of white-collar crime through empirical research and through his formidable ability to summarize and synthesize the work of others. His work on white-crime is best characterized as iconoclastic and collaborative. Although most well-known for his pioneering and innovative research on public opinion on white-collar crime, he has teamed with a host of other scholars to challenge commonsensical views and ask probing questions about the control of white-collar crime, the application of criminological theory to white-collar crime, and the pedagogy of white-collar crime. His writings in all of these areas combine careful scholarship and an insightful sociological imagination with rhetorical persuasiveness.

Authors

• Michael Benson, University of Cincinnati

• Will Stadler, Saint Martin's University