White Collar Crime: The Essentials is a comprehensive, yet compact text that addresses the most important topics in white collar crime, while allowing for more accessibility through cost. The book provides a theoretical framework and context for students and explores such timely topics as crimes by workers sales oriented systems, crimes in the health care system, crimes by criminal justice professionals and politicians, crimes in the educational system, crimes in the economic and technological systems, corporate crime, environmental crime, and others. This is an easily-supplemented resource for any course that covers white collar crime.