‘White-collar crime’ is a broad and loose description of a wide variety of crimes and activities. One of the key difficulties in attempting to analyse crimes in this area has been a lack of theoretical models with which to evaluate offences. A further criticism that has been made about these crimes has been the variety of mental elements needed to prove the offences, and, at times, an underlyin...

Abstract White-collar criminality continues to be a significant issue in countries with differing levels of economic development. This paper provides comparative analysis white-collar crime and crises through an examination the recent peer-to-peer (P2P) online lending crash China. It considers criminological findings from major United States light China’s P2P market failure lens theory research...