white-collar crime

white-collar crime

English

Etymology

Introduced by American sociologist Edwin Sutherland.

Noun

white-collar crime (countable and uncountable, plural white-collar crimes)

1. Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money. [from 1939]

   Fraud and embezzlement are examples of white-collar crime.

Translations

non-violent crime

Catalan: delicte de guant blanc m Dutch: witteboordencriminaliteit (nl) f Finnish: valkokaulusrikollisuus (fi) French: délinquance en col blanc (fr) f Irish: coireacht an bhóna bháin f Italian: criminalità dei colletti bianchi, reati dei colletti bianchi Portuguese: crime do colarinho branco m Spanish: criminalidad de cuello blanco f

See also

• white-collar criminal