...focus of scientific investigation of crime and criminality." 2 Sutherland defined white-collar crime as "crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation." 3 But the term whitecollar crime has generally come to include crimes such as tax fraud, which are...

...advanced by Edwin H. Sutherland, who said that "* * * white-collar crime may be defined approximately as a crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation." Sutherland 2 introduced this definition with the comment that these white-collar crimes are violations...

...exploitation has been recognized by sociologists. Sutherland (1949: 9) defined a white-collar crime as one "committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his legitimate occupation." White-collar crime included such acts as false and deceptive advertising, mislabeling...

...crime" was first defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1949 in his book, "WhiterCollar Crime" as crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation. Sutherland maintained that white-collar crime should be placed in the social and political realm of...

...exploitation has been recognized by sociologists. Sutherland (1949: 9) defined a white-collar crime as one "committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his legitimate occupation." White-collar crime included such acts as false and deceptive advertising, mislabeling...

...scientists generally have considered tax evasion a typical "white-collar crime," defined by Sutherland as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation" (1949: 9). Empirical studies of tax evasion have therefore focused on individuals from middle and upper...

...no more distilled, he published WhiteCollar Crime, in which he defined his topic "approximately" as "crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation." 40 Several generations of scholars have grappled with the implications and shortcomings of this definition,...

...archival material. 'WHITE-COLLAR CRIME' REVISITED Sutherland (1949, 2) defined white-collar crime as 'crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation.' Recognizing that this concept encompasses many types of behaviour and motivation, subsequent scholars...

...criminal involvement of those of high social status. Accordingly, he defined white collar-crime "as a crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation" (1949, 9). As it turned out, Sutherland examined not individual white- collar offenders but the criminal...

...1983:7). Sutherland did show that white-collar crime is frequent, when white-collar crime is defined as 'a crime committed by a person of respectability and...high social status in the course of his occupation' (Sutherland, 1983: 71. 1ndeed, work since Sutherland leaves little doubt that more of the most serious...