The White Collar Criminal: Characteristics and Psychological Traits

It was the sociologist Edwin Sutherland who first coined the concept of white-collar crime in 1939. He defined it as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation”. It’s not easy to understand why someone in a wealthy position would commit economic crimes that ultimately harm many people. They don’t need anything. Why do they do it? However, it’s also difficult to understand the reaction of much of society to this kind of crime. In fact, people have a tendency to classify it as a simple case of over-ambition. In…