Discuss the conceptual difficulty in defining white collar crime
What will be an ideal response?
• There is little agreement in the literature as to what crimes are included in that term.
• As originally intended by Sutherland, the term covered all law violations committed by persons in corporate positions; these law violations were not necessarily crimes.
• Today, white collar crime ranges from major economic crimes committed by corporate officials to small-time embezzlements committed by office clerks.
• The various crimes included in the concept are not of equal severity, and the explanations for committing them are often very different.
• Some white collar crimes are committed by individuals, others by corporations (or individuals in the name of the corporation).
• The text suggests Green's Occupational Crime categorization is a better alternative to the term white collar crime.
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