WHITE-COLLAR CRIME

White-Collar Crime: Data and Trends

White-Collar Crime: Data and Trends

Background of White Collar Crimes

Edwin H. Sutherland, addressing a presidential meeting at The American Sociological Society in 1939 stressed on the growing volumes of crimes perpetrated by high-class offenders (Bazley, 2008). In this book title 'White Collar Crime', he defined such crimes as “crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”. Presently, this definition is a subject of hot debate amongst many experts. Modern manifestations to the white collar crime concept provide not only for economic crimes, but also Internet crimes, violations relating ...