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Who coined the term “white-collar crime”?

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The term 'white collar crime' was coined by criminologist Edwin Sutherland in his 1939 speech entitled The White Collar Criminal, and was used to describe a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.

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it was first defined by edwin sutherland

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