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We live in a world of boundaries. They include boundaries between academic disciplines and within disciplines, boundaries between areas of specialization. We live in a world of temporal boundaries, where it is common to differentiate between past, present, and future.We live in aworld of geographical boundaries between communities, states, and nations. The erosion of boundaries in all of these realms, or the reconfiguration of such boundaries, is one of the guiding themes of this chapter. Developments pertaining to white-collar crime and its control bring this theme into especially sharp relief.
This chapter is based on a paper originally presented at the World Congress of Criminology in Rio de Janeiro, August, 2003. Versions of this chapter were presented as invited lectures at Western Michigan University and Eastern Kentucky University in Spring, 2004, and at Stonehill College in Spring, 2005. I wish to thank Dawn Rothe, Ronald Kramer, Carole Garrison, and Danielle McGurrin for their role in arranging these lectures, and for their encouragement and observations. My daughter Jessica Friedrichs provided basic inspiration for developing the concept of “crimes of globalization,” as a consequence of her experiences while living in Thailand. I also wish to thank the Faculty Research Committee at the University of Scranton for ongoing support in connection with this project.
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Friedrichs, D.O. (2007). White-Collar Crime in a Postmodern, Globalized World. In: Pontell, H.N., Geis, G. (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8_8
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