This work is dedicated to map the modes of thinking and acting of legal professionals
who work in white-collar crime and corruption. Lawyers, especially those
in charge of legal accountability, whose decisions generate economic and political
consequences, stand at a strategic location between the state and key segments
of society. Little is known about how a professional group with a shared expertise
views the people they are interacting with in their job roles. By looking at
legal professionals engaging with white-collar crime in a place where income and
inequality are concentrated among a minority, my work is catering to the elite
literature while shedding light on within-elite interactions. White-collar crime is
the milieu that connects the group, a legal elite, with the economic and political
elites they work with. I am examining their understanding of corruption and
whether their worldviews are reflected in their action patterns.