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Stephen Schneider

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Author of Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime (2013) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

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