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Description of  White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime: Future selves and the constancy of change (International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation)

The MPs expenses scandal in England and Wales and the international banking crisis have both brought into focus a concern about elite individuals and their treatment by criminal justice systems. This interest intersects with a well-established concern within criminology for the transgressions of such offenders. However, up until now there has been little sustained consideration of what happens to such offenders following conviction and little discussion of how they attempt to avoid reoffending in the wake of their punishment. Read more