Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson introduces to the idea of what white-collar crime is by analyzing it and then uses a theory, in which they can apply to both white-collar crime and normal crime, to try and explain the causes of white-collar crime. They outline a general theory in which they are able to understand and organize crime in general and white-collar crime at the same time. The authors use this theory to enable the ability to compare and contrast between white-collar crime and any other crime, but ultimately analyzing them in the same way. The authors’ findings were that the sociological theories of before were not in the favour of seeing white-collar crime as an issue. Having white-collar crime as an issue usually led the discussion
