RT Article
T1 The President and the Boss's son: Prosecuting the crimes of America's most powerful
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 27
IS 3
SP 357
OP 380
A1 Hagan, John
A2 McCarthy, Bill
A2 Herda, Daniel
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854429701
AB Relatively few theoretical criminologists are recognized for their lasting impact on public policy, and it is therefore instructive to reconsider a scholar whose influence endures. Donald Cressey wrote a theoretically driven Presidential Commission essay that inspired the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). He also advanced a theory of “respectable crime” that explains why this act has more extensively been directed downwards to dismantle ethnically organized criminal groups rather than upwards to prosecute elite political conspiracies led, for example, by Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley and US President Donald J Trump. We present case studies of Daley and Trump that illustrate the continuing relevance and underappreciated potential of Cressey's theoretically driven scholarship.
K1 Privilege
K1 Politics
K1 Crimes
DO 10.1177/13624806221122610