ABSTRACT
When Edwin Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, he referred to the respectable businessmen of his day who had, in the course of their occupations, violated the law whenever ‘definitions’ favored them doing so. He presented numerous examples of twentieth-century corporations violating various statutes while also effectively avoiding both criminal sanctions as well as the placement of personal responsibility on their corporate officers. He further remarked that the ‘robber barons’ of the nineteenth century also qualified as white-collar criminals.
