What is white-collar crime, and why do some criminologists have difficulty understanding it?
What will be an ideal response?
Edwin Sutherland defined white-collar crime as violations of the criminal law that are "committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation." This definition focuses on the violator, rather than on the offense committed. Recently, however, the focus has shifted to the nature of the crime instead of the social standing or occupational role of the offender.
According to Sutherland, many criminologists do not properly understand white-collar crime because they do not recognize that the secretive violations of public and corporate trust by persons in positions of authority are just as criminal as predatory acts committed by people of lower social standing.
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