White-collar crime
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White-collar crime is a financially motivated, economic, non-violent crime committed for illegal monetary gain. Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime initially was defined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (1939). Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism, and believed that criminal behavior was learned from interpersonal interaction with others. White-collar crime, therefore, overlaps with corporate crime because the opportunity for fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery are more available to white-collar employees.
See also
- Accounting scandals
- Con man
- FBI
- Franchise fraud
- Fraud
- Industrial espionage
- INTERPOL
- IRS Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID)
- Money laundering
- Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI)
- Organized crime
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Securities fraud
- Terrorist financing
- United States Postal Inspection Service
- United States Secret Service
