ABSTRACT
White collar crime was defined by Edwin Sutherland as a ‘crime committed by a person of respectability and of high social status in the course of his occupation' and has since come to be understood as an umbrella term encompassing areas such as financial crime – including fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and insider trading – environmental crime, occupational crime, and state–corporate crime. Turks and Caicos engages directly and critically with the phenomenon of white collar crime, foregrounding its relative invisibility, its prevalence, and its extensive damage. Criminologists have emphasised that there is a lot at stake in conceptualising white collar crime, since the way in which it is defined affects how it is perceived and understood, how it is represented across various media, how it is researched and analysed, and how it is dealt with by criminal justice systems.
