White Collar Crime Litigation
White-collar crime refers to financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals. Within criminology, it was first defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”. Categories of white collar crimes are bribery and corruption, food and drug adulteration, counterfeiting, forgery, tax evasion, cyber-crimes etc. The term “white-collar crime” has not been defined in the code.