ABSTRACT
The importance of white-collar crime was first recognized by E.A. Ross, a political economist who became influential in the field of sociology during its fledgling days. Edwin Sutherland defined white-collar crime “as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”. This chapter concentrates exclusively on film-worthy white-collar offenses, or corporates malfeasances that contain enough drama to attract the interest of film-makers and their intended audiences. In white-collar crime, perpetrators engage in very little identifiable, overt behavior that the unschooled observer could characterize as a crime of any kind. Corporate offenses possess several features that are very different from what’s regarded as ordinary street crime.
