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This book puts on the front burner one of the more serious white-collar crimes of the 21st century. Using interview data, Copes (Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham) and Vieraitis (Criminology, Univ. of Texas, Dallas) provide stories beyond accounts of hit-and-run computer hackers. This book is perhaps best described as a practitioners' source, including those in federal agencies as well as professionals involved in rehabilitating this type of offender. --Choice

This book is a valuable contribution to our empirical knowledge of identity theft and to the growing body of literature examining crime and criminality from the offender's perspective. The book will be of interest to a variety of criminologists; those who are interested in the offender's perspective and criminal decision making, as well as those who study property or white-collar crime, will definitely want to add this to their personal libraries. Its writing is clear and crisp, making it suitable for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses on qualitative criminology, property crime, and white-collar crime. Copes and Vieraitis have produced the definitive volume on identity theft; it is a welcome addition and valuable contribution to the theoretical and empirical literature. --International Criminal Justice Review

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HEITH COPES is an associate professor in the department of justice sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham. LYNNE M. VIERAITIS is an associate professor in the criminology program at the University of Texas, Dallas.

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