White Collar Crime

• Early History
• Sutherland's definition (1939)

  "A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his/her occupation."

• More contemporary definitions (Clinard and Quinney 1973)

  Occupational Crime

  Corporate Crime

Occupational Crime

Employee Theft

• Pilferage
• Embezzlement (Savings and Loan Scandal)

Computer Crimes

Corporate Financial Crime

• The Buffalo Creek Disaster
• Silicon Gel Breast Implants
• Tobacco Industry
• Auto Fraud

FILM: "Crime in the Suites"