That is the title of the book by Stuart Green, a distinguished professor of Criminal Law at Rutgers School of Law at the State University of New Jersey: "Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White-Collar Crime". José Ramón Agustina, a professor of Criminal Law in the UIC Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, was the first to translate the book, in which Green constructs a theory about white collar crime.
"There is some controversy about how to define so-called white collar crimes", explained Prof. Agustina. "But generally they are crimes that take place in the business world, usually in companies, and are committed from a position of power, which makes them easier to carry out".
In Lying, Cheating and Stealing, Prof. Stuart Green discusses the concept of white collar crime, introduced 75 years ago by Edwin Sutherland, based on a central idea: criminal law must be based on and coherent with a moral foundation.
The Spanish edition also includes a translation of a recent empirical study by the same author on people’s perceptions of these crimes and a preface written specifically by the author for this edition.
The book was published in English by Oxford University Press and has received several distinctions and awards, such as the one from the National White Collar Crime Center. In his book, Prof. Green uses his powerful skills to describe white-collar crime from a new perspective by addressing problems regarding how to interpret the hard core of these crimes and providing social and ethical considerations not often discussed by legal experts.
