Geography 2153A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: White-Collar Crime, Workplace Deviance, Misdemeanor
28 Jun 2016
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Edwin sutherland created the concept of white-collar crime more than 70 years ago to draw attention to the fact that crimes are committed by individuals in all social classes. Sutherland was trying to understand more macro level structure theories. Sutherland was not the first social scientist to write about crimes by those in the upper class. Sutherland used the term white-collar criminaloid in reference to the criminaloid concept initially used by e. a. The way sutherland defined and studied white-collar crime was criticized and the criticisms centered on five concerns: conceptual ambiguity, empirical ambiguity, methodological ambiguity, legal ambiguity and policy ambiguity. Conceptual ambiguity: it was criticized sutherland vaguely and loosely defined white-collar crime. Empirical ambiguity: concept only minimally reflected reality. Methodological ambiguity: sutherland defined white-collar crime as behaviors committed by members of the upper class, but his research focused on all sorts of offences.
