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The Source: Getting Inside The White-Collar Criminal Mind

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They say don't do the crime if you can't do the time, but people break the law every day and think nothing of it - not just burglars, stick-up men and drug dealers, but white-collar criminals that do insider trading, price fixing, Ponzi schemes, dirty stock, bond deals and more. 

But somehow we see white-collar crime as not being so bad when compared to other street crimes, even though they can steal so much more money, destroy lives and industries, and maybe even wreck the economy. 

Guest: 

Eugene Soltes, author of "Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal" and professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School

David Martin Davies can be reached at dmdavies@tpr.org and on Twitter at @DavidMartinDavi