Crimes by offender or organization type are typologies that sort crime by who commits it. White-collar crime generally means nonviolent crimes usually committed in commercial situations for financial gain, such as antitrust violations, bribery, embezzlement, insider trading, mail fraud and money laundering. Organized crime has no single definition under federal law, and federal agencies generally use the term for continuing criminal organizations, enterprises or associations whose members coordinate their activities over time, often for financial or other material gain, in forms that range from formal hierarchies to informal networks and cells that may use violence, threats, intimidation or corruption.
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Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: white-collar crime
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White-collar crime generally encompasses a variety of nonviolent crimes usually committed in commercial situations for financial gain.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: organized crime
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Federal law enforcement agencies generally use the term to describe continuing criminal organizations, enterprises, or associations whose members coordinate their activities over time
Wikipedia: Corporate Crime
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Illegal acts or omissions, punishable by the state under administrative, civil or criminal law which are the result of deliberate decision making or culpable negligence within a legitimate formal organisation.
Juvenile delinquency (Wikipedia)
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Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is the act of participating in unlawful behavior younger than the statutory age of majority.
Edwin Sutherland (Wikipedia)
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He is considered one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency.
New World Encyclopedia: Organized Crime
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Organized crime or criminal organizations refer to centralized enterprises established in order to engage in illegal activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit for the criminals involved.
USLegal, Inc.: Blue Collar Crime Law and Legal Definition
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Blue-collar crime means crimes committed by an individual from a lower social class causing injury to person and property.
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