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Understanding White Collar Crime

The term “white collar crime” was first coined by the sociologist and criminologist Edwin Sutherland. In 1939, Sutherland proposed usage of the term to the American Sociological Society, as a way to describe crimes committed by persons of respectability and high social status. The white collar denotation stood in contrast…
Sami Azhari
February 3, 2024
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18 USC 1344: How Does U.S. Federal Law Tackle Bank Fraud Crimes?

After the Supreme Court curtailed federal prosecution of check fraud in the 1980s, Congress passed the Federal Bank Fraud Act to bolster protection for financial institutions. Most commonly, the applicable federal statutes deal with forged and stolen checks, false statements, unauthorized transactions, and embezzlement. But federal law also casts a…
Sami Azhari
May 1, 2020
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