Abstract: The considerable impact of corporate crime and the complex issues
surrounding its control are generally absent from discussions of
criminal justice. Indeed the definition and criminal status of this
vast area of crime have long been debated by criminological and
legal scholars (Croall 2001; Nelken 2007). Defining white-collar crime
as ‘crime committed by a person of respectability and high social
status in the course of his occupation’, Sutherland (1949: 9) sought
to challenge the focus of criminology on lower-class crime and draw
attention to the ‘human misery’ caused by illegal business activities,
many of which were subject not to criminal but to regulatory law, and
widely perceived as ‘not really crime’. While the subjectivity of calling
them crime was strongly criticised (Tappan 1947) it raised important
questions about the very distinctive way in which these offences are
dealt with in relation to law, prosecution and punishment.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-08-21
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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