ABSTRACT
This chapte utilizes the term “white-collar crime” as an umbrella term encompassing both individual and organizational forms of crime. It presents a review of a number of forms of white-collar crime in China, and some consequences of such crime for Chinese society and the evolution of the Chinese state. White-collar and corporate crimes have been principally associated with Western, capitalist countries, especially the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and so forth. From the time of American criminologist Edwin Sutherland’s introduction of the concept of white-collar crime more than 70 years ago, there has been much debate about the appropriate meaning of this term. The production of counterfeit goods infringing intellectual property rights has been commonplace in China for a long time. China has become the world’s largest source of counterfeit goods of all kinds. Theories of white-collar crime developed in a Western context need to incorporate factors unique to a Chinese context.
