Risky business revisited: White-collar crime and the Orange County bankruptcy

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 367-387

  Will, Susan ^a   Pontell, Henry N ^a,b   Cheung, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Social Ecology and Social Sciences ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

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EID: 22044458110     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128798044003002     Document Type: Article

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