Sutherland-

He focused on middle-class crime in corporations. He also tried to focus on balancing the criminology perspective surrounding middle-class and working-class crime as they are overly obsessed with working-class crime. He created 2 definitions of white-collar crime:

1. Done by the employee against the employer (Embezzlement)

2. Crimes committed by corporate executives on behalf of the corporation.

Snider 1993-

The state is reluctant to pass laws that threaten profit or regulate businesses. He also believes that it does more harm than street crimes. In America alone, he believes that corporate crime massively outweighs the 20,000 deaths by street crime per year in America by issues such as health and safety, illegal consumer products, and occupationally induced diseases (cancer).

Pearce -

Issues such as selective law enforcement, have led to few prosecutions which reinforces ideas that white-collar crime is minimal.

Pearce and Tombs 2003-

They define white-collar crime as ‘an illegal act or omission by deliberate decision or negligence by a legitimate business or cooperation which is intended to benefit the business