White-collar crime

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Crimes by mostly well educated people in often higher social status.

White-collar crime is financially motivated, not directly violent crime committed through deceptive practices, by individuals, businesses and government officials.[1] It overlaps with corporate crime. While not violent and for some time not viewed as serious by society at at large,[2] these crimes are today thought of as: "just as severe and devastating as street crimes".[3]

It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as:

"a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation"

White-collar criminals usually occupy a professional position of power and/or prestige, and one that commands well above average compensation.[4] A considerable percentage of white-collar offenders are middle-aged Caucasian men who usually commit their first white-collar offense sometime between their late thirties through their mid-forties and appear to have middle-class backgrounds.[5]

White-collar crimes may include:

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Examples

Page nameDescription
Deepwater HorizonAn ecologically disastrous oil spill
Insider tradingTrading for your own benefit with knowledge only few have.
Lübeck disasterWorst case, whereby the vaccine was contaminated with the bacteria (tuberculosis) that caused the disease.
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