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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access originally published online on January 16, 2008
British Journal of Criminology 2008 48(2):154-170; doi:10.1093/bjc/azm075
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The British Journal of Criminology 48:154-170 (2008)
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The Role of Money in Economic Crime1

Oskar Engdahl*

* PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Box 720, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden; oskar.engdahl{at}sociology.gu.se.


  Abstract

This article considers how money can motivate crime, influence the opportunity structure governing its occurrence, and serve as a practical instrument facilitating it. Existing theories are engaged based on their assumptions that money (1) fosters attitudes that reduce moral questions to technical problems; (2) gives rise to feelings of self-sufficiency that cause people to become detached from one another and from the webs of social obligation that counteract crime; and (3) diminishes the risk of being caught and makes illegal transactions easier. In addition, the argument also introduces the notion of money as a manoeuvre by which to evade entanglement in emotionally straining and risky social relations in which openness can negatively affect status and life project.


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