Business crimes
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2009
Abstract
There is no formal definition of a “business crime” or a “white-collar crime”in the context of Singapore legislation. Neither do any of these terms carryany legal significance. The term “white-collar crime” was popularised afterthe American sociologist, Edwin H Sutherland, delivered his presidentialaddress “White-Collar Criminality” in 1939 to the American SociologicalSociety, where he compared crime in the upper or white-collar class,composed of respectable or at least respected business and professionalmen, with that of the lower class, comprising persons of low socioeconomicstatus (E H Sutherland, “White-Collar Criminality” (1940) 5 AmericanSociological Review.
Discipline
Business Organizations Law | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Publication
Principles of Singapore Business Law
Editor
SHENOY George; Wee Ling Loo
ISBN
9789814253734
Publisher
Cengage Publishing
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
WAN, Wai Yee.
Business crimes. (2009). Principles of Singapore Business Law.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2778
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