White Collar Crime: Jennifer Taub

OCCUPY!: An Unfinished Uprising · Jun 17, 2021 · 36m

White Collar Crime

White collar crime, as originally defined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939, are offenses committed by someone of high social status and respectability in the course of their occupation. Today, we tend to define white collar crime by the nature of the offense, instead of the status of the offender. We think of financial crimes such as fraud or embezzlement, which have a devastating impact on huge portions of the country. Precisely because of the high status of white collar criminals, very few are prosecuted and held accountable for their actions.

Massive Scale

White collar crime…