Criminal law norms are socially derived, being constructed in political processes, but only recently has criminological research began to focus on the political construction of criminal law. There has been increasing interest in the quality of these political processes, the decisions that result, and the rationales and social forces guiding these decisions.

In Constructing White-Collar Crime, Joachim J. Savelsberg, a sociologist, and Peter Bruhl, a lawyer, have provided an interdisciplinary case study of the construction of new German laws against white-collar crime, relating...