The phrase "white-collar crime" was first used in 1939 during a presidential address given by Edwin Sutherland to the American Sociological Society. Sutherland defined the term as "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" and the term is now synonymous with the full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals. These crimes are most often characterized by...
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