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Within the field of
criminology, white-collar crime or 'incorporated governance' has been
defined by Edwin Sutherland "...as a crime committed by a person of
respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation."
Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism, and believed that
criminal behavior was learned from interpersonal interaction with
others.
White-collar crime
therefore overlaps with corporate crime because the opportunity for
fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, and
forgery is more available to white-collar employees.
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