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White Collar Crime

The Different Types of White-Collar Crimes

The term white-collar crime is used to define offenses committed using fraudulent schemes. The most common types of crimes include forgery, theft, embezzlement, corporate fraud, insurance scams and money laundering. White-collar crime was a phrase originally coined in 1939 when Edwin Sutherland gave a speech to the American Sociological Society. He defined the term as [...]

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