... less serious than street crime and why it should not be. To answer the question entirely, we have to look at the definition white collar crime. However, this is not easy as the definition of white collar crime has been disputed and there has not yet been a total agreement on a proper definition of the term Let us look at why the problem of definition has arisen. Firstly, the term 'White Collar Crime' lacks in clarity about the crimes that were documented by Edwin Sutherland. The argument was that the corporate activities that were documented in his book were merely civil matters and not crimes. Critics felt that Sutherland was trying to stretch the term 'crime' too far. Secondly, it was felt that Sutherland had inaccurately or rather had not been able to term correctly which crimes committed qualified as white collar. Some cases in his book have been ...

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