White-Collar Crime in a Postmodern, Globalized World

Abstract

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.