White-collar crime

Crime committed through a person’s professional or occupational position, such as fraud.

Crime committed through a person’s occupational position, typically in professional or business settings.

Merton gives limited attention to power: who makes laws and who benefits from them. His emphasis on blocked opportunities among lower social classes can exaggerate working-class crime while underestimating white-collar crime committed by people in advantaged positions.

Crime committed through a person's occupational position, such as financial fraud.

Crime committed by people in relatively high-status occupations during their work, such as tax evasion or false expense claims.

Crime committed through a professional or high-status occupation, such as an accountant committing fraud.

White-collar crime, such as fraud or tax evasion through a professional occupation, may be complex or concealed. Victims may not realise that an offence has occurred. Corporate crime benefits a business; the 2013 horsemeat scandal, in which horsemeat was sold as beef, illustrates crime involving mislabelled goods.

Crime committed through professional or business positions, such as occupational fraud.

Crime committed by a person of high social status in the course of their occupation, such as professional fraud.

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