Edwin Sutherland Defined White-Collar Crime as "Crime Committed by a Person

question 33

True/False

Edwin Sutherland defined white-collar crime as "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation."

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Definitions:

Heredity

The passing of traits from parents to offspring through genes, influencing characteristics such as height, eye color, and susceptibility to certain diseases.

Environment

The surrounding physical, biological and socio-economic conditions in which an organism or community lives.

Shaping Development

The process by which behavior is gradually guided toward a desired pattern through positive reinforcement of successive approximations to the target behavior.

Cellular-Clock Theory

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