Sutherland wrote a book, White Collar Crime, that sparked lots of debate. 
5 However, there is a limited focus on 
white-collar crime and even less enforcement of it in the United States. From the conflict view, white-collar and 
corporate crime gets committed by the ‘haves,’ and they write the laws and define what is or is not a crime. Going 
back to how we define crime in society, white-collar crime is still a contested one. 
Currently, there are different views of how one should define white-collar crime: defining white-collar crime 
based on the type of offender, type of offense, studying economic crime such as corporate and/or environmental law 
violations, health, and safety law violations, and/or the organizational culture rather than the offender or offense. 
The FBI studies white-collar crime in terms of offense, so official data for white-collar crime will not focus on the 
background of the offender, which can make the use of Uniform Crime Report Data, UCR data tricky to use if 
trying to determine a typical offender. The UCR will be covered more fully in chapter two, but it is data collected 
from police departments, and the FBI compiles reports. Again, conflict view may suggest the lack of focus on white-
collar crime in U.S. society would be because the ‘haves’ creates the laws, not the ‘have-nots.’ https://ucr.fbi.gov/
nibrs/nibrs_wcc.pdf 
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5. Sutherland, E. (1949). White collar crime. Dryden Press. 
6. Barnett, C. (N.D.). The measurement of white-collar crime using: Uniform crime reporting (UCR) data. U.S. Department of Justice. 
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