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contemporary white-collar crime  

Definition

  • The first use of the term white-collar crime was in 1939. Sociologist Edwin Hardin Sutherland (1883–1950) used it in a speech given to the American Sociological Society. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; White-Collar Crime, Contemporary]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-X9J5PRN2-3

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